click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World Hist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Location | A place or position |
| Place | what is like when you get there |
| Movement | People and ideas get around |
| 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 | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
| 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 |