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Geography Concepts
What is absolute location? | Tells the location of a place using longitude and latitude coordinates. |
What is a continent? | The main expanses of land of the world. |
What is relative location? | A way of giving a location by using familiar places and objects. |
What is a hemisphere? | The four parts of the world that are crated by the equator and the Prime Meridian. |
What is the equator? | The imaginary line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. |
What is the prime meridian? | The imaginary line that divides the earth into the Western and Eastern hemispheres. |
What is latitude? | Imaginary lines that go East to West across the Earth. |
What is longitude? | Imaginary lines that go South to North on the earth. |
What is climate? | The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time. |
What is a natural resource? | A type of resource that is always naturally made and never man made. |
What is population distribution? | Where people live. |
What is trade? | When people buy and sell goods and services. |
What is modify? | When you change physical environments for economic gain. |