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Studyguide geography By: Someone212
| Term | Answer |
|---|---|
| A place on the earths surface | Location |
| how humans interact with the environment | Human Environmental interaction |
| The features that help define a location | Place |
| a broad geographic area with similar features | Region |
| the moving of people, products, produce, and information between countries | Movement |
| lines of latitude run ___ ___ but measure distance North south | East west |
| lines of longitude run ___ ___ but measure distance east west | North south |
| The _____ divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres | Equator |
| The _____ divides the earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres | Prime Meridian |
| A ____ ____ explains the symbols on a map | Map Key |
| A ____ ____ compares a distance of a map to the distance in the real world | Map Scale |
| Retaliative location | The location of one place compared to another |
| the exact location of something | Absolute Location |
| Peninsula | a body of water jutting into a land or ocean |
| land deposited at the rivers mouth | delta |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| a narrow stretch of land connecting two larger bodies of land | isthmus |
| Sahara desert | Physical |
| McKinley Monument | Political |
| Lake Erie | Physical |
| Eiffel tower | Political |