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MSHS geography
Vocabulary list for Geography
Question | Answer | |
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Absolute Location | The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found | 1.1 |
Relative Location | Describes a place in relation to other places around it | 1.1 |
Hemisphere | Each half of the globe | 1.1 |
Equator | The imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern and southern halves | 1.1 |
Prime Meridian | The imaginary line at zero meridian used to measure longitude east and west and dividing the earth;s east and west halves | 1.1 |
Latitude | A set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator used in locating places north or south | 1.1 |
Longitude | A set of imaginary lines that go around the earth over the poles dividing it east and west | 1.1 |
Geography | The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth | 1.1 |