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Geography
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Location | - Tells you where it is |
Place | - What is it like when you get there |
Movement | - People and ideas get around |
Human environment interaction | - What do the people do to the environment? What does the environment do for the people? |
Regions | - What do locations have in common?-- Climate, religion, language, education, states are territories - borders of a nation |
Hemisphere | - Half of a sphere [Earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east and west hemisphere] |
Latitude | - measures south and north and run from east and west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
Longitude | - measures east and west and the lines run from north to south |
Prime Meridian | - 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into east and west hemispheres |
Equator | - 0 degrees Latitude and divides the earth into north and south hemispheres |
Compass | - shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST |