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Geography Chap 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found |
| Relative Location | Describes a place in comparison to other places around it |
| Place | Physical features and cultural characteristics of a location |
| Region | An area of the earths surface with similar characteristics |
| Movement | The way people goods and ideas move from place to place |
| Interaction man/enviroment | How humans interact with their enviroment |
| Cartographer | Mapmaker |
| Map Projection | A way of drawing the earths surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on a flat paper |
| Landsat | A series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above earth |
| Topographic Map | A representation of natural and man made features of the earth |
| Biosphere | The part of the earth where the plants and animals live |
| Cataract | A step like series of waterfalls |
| Drainage Basin | An area drained by a major river and its tributes |
| Epicenter | The point directly above the focus on the earths surface |
| Fault | Fracture in the earths crust |
| Humus | Organic material |
| Hydrologic Cycle | The continous circulation of water between the atmosphere in the oceans and the earth |
| Lava | Magma that has reached the earths surface |
| Loess | Windblown silt and clay sediment that produce very fertile soil |
| Moraine | A ridge or hill of rock carried and finally deposited by a glacier |
| Richter Scale | A way to measure information collected by seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake |
| Ring of Fire | The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim |
| Sediment | small pieces of rock produced by weathering process |
| Seismograph | A device that measures the size of the waves created by an earthquake |
| Tectonic Plates | An enormous moving shelf that forms the earths crust |
| Topography | The combined characteristics of landforms and their distributions in a region |
| Rain Shadow | The land on the leeward side of hills or mountains that gets little rain from the descending dry air |
| Hurricane | A storm that forms over warm tropical ocean waters |
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