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Geography-Ethan D
Geography Word Wall
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute | specific; exact point of referance, adress, or time |
| Relative | unspecific; not completely acurate, or exact |
| Perspective | a view of things or facts in which they are in the right relations |
| Proximity | nearness, or vicinity to something |
| Distance | a space between two points, an interval |
| Bearing | the situation or horizontal direction of one point with respect to another or to the compass |
| Coordinates | order of degrees or specific point on a map |
| Vector | a course or compass direction, especially of an airplane |
| Equator | the imaginary band circling the middle of the earth at zero degrees latitude |
| Parallel | lines of latitude |
| Prime Meridian | the line at zero degrees longitude |
| Meridian | an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place on the earth's surface; lines of longitude |
| Hemisphere | one of the halves of the earth |
| Tropic of Cancer | the northern edge of the tropic zone at twenty-three point five degrees north |
| Tropic of Capricorn | the southern edge of the tropic zone at twenty-three point five degrees south |
| Cardinal Directions | directions of north, south, east, and west |
| Intermediate Points | directions between north, south, east, and west; these points are north-east, north-west, south-east, south-west |
| Location | characteristics: direction, distance, proximity: measured by length |
| Place | physical and human characteristics of a place |
| Movement | how things, people and animals get from place to place |
| Human Environmental Interactions(HEI) | how humans affect the environment, how the environment affects humans, how humans adapt to the environment |
| Regions | divide the world into manageable units for geographical study; regions can be formal, functions, or vernacular |
| Latitude | lines that show the distance in degrees from the equator |
| International Dateline | the line at one-hundred eighty degrees longitude |
| Tropics/Tropic Zone | an area which gets the same amount of light and dark year round. it measures forty-seven degrees latitude through the equator |
| Environment | everything that surrounds both natural and manmade |
| Ecology | a unique environment/study of |
| Adaptation | how living things live/survive in their unique environment |
| Climate | average weather in a region over a long period of time |
| Compass Rose | an element found on a map which shows direction |
| Legend/Key | an element found on a map which shows the meaning of symbols shown on the map |
| Scale | an element found on a map which shows distance |
| Equinox(2) | either of two times in the year when night and day are of equal length |
| Solstice(2) | either of two times in the year when the sun is farthest from the equator |
| Poles | one end of the earth, north or south |
| GPS(Global Positioning System) | a satellite based navigation system |
| GIS(Geographic Information System) | captures, manages, analyzes, and displays, all forms of geographically referenced information |
| Longitude | lines that show the distance, in degrees from Greenwich, England |
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