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Area Studies Unit 1o
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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A point on the earth's surface expressed by a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude. | Absolute Location |
a half of the celestial sphere as divided into two halves by the horizon, the celestial equator, or the ecliptic | Hemisphere |
A location of a place in relation to another place | Relative location |
Physical characteristics of a place include altitude, landforms like mountains and bodies of water,climate and different forms of precipitation. Temperature is also included. | characteristics of a place |
A viewpoint that is influenced by one's own culture and experience | perception |
A group of places that have similar attributes. | formal region |
A group of places connected by movement. | functional region |
a straight line that has the same distance between another straight line. | parallel |
an imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations along it with a given longitude. | meridian |
The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) at which the longitude is defined to be 0°. | prime meridan |
geography refers to how people, goods, and ideas are dynamic and constantly changing | movement |
subregions that contain clusters of like areas that are distinctive by their uniformity of description based on a range of statistical data | region |
how we affect and are affected by the environment, and also how we disturb the natural environment. | human- environment interaction |
a specific position or point in physical space | location |
an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in an area | place |
An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and containing the sphere's center of mass. | equator |
the circle of latitude on the Earth that marks the most northerly position | tropic of cancer |
the most southerly latitude on the Earth | tropic of capricorn |