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Geography Unit

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TermDefinition
Location Where a person or thing is - it can be absolute or relative.
Place Describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
Human-Environment Interaction How humans depend on, adapt to, or modify the environment.
Regions Multiple places grouped together based on similar characteristics.
Movement The ways and reasons that people, ideas, goods, resources, and communication travel across the planet.
hemisphere one of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator or a meridian.
map key Tells what the symbols, lines, and colors represent on a map.
scale A line that helps you measure distance on a map.
locator map A smaller map that tells you the location of the main map.
cardinal directions North, South, East, West
intermediate directions Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
compass rose The part of the map that shows where due north is.
Political Map A type of map that shows human created boundaries (such as countries, states, or even cities).
Physical Map A type of map that shows physical features (landforms, bodies of water, and elevation).
Special Purpose Map A type of map that is created to show a particular theme (Examples: population, precipitation, popular religions, etc...)
equator The line of latitude that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
prime meridian The line of longitude that divides the earth into the western and eastern hemispheres.
lines of latitude imaginary lines, also called parallels, that run across the earth east to west, but they measure your distance north or south of the equator.
lines of longitude imaginary lines, also called meridians, that run north to south over the poles, but they measure the distance east or west of the prime meridian.
continents the largest masses of land on the earth - there are 7
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