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Geography
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Location | Tells you where it is |
| Place | What is it like when you get there |
| Movement | an act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed |
| Human environment interaction | Humans Interacting on the Earth |
| 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 |
| Equator | a line drawn around the earth equal distance from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| Compass | shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST |