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geography/kevin
geo vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolute | a exact specific point |
| location | accueate but not general |
| perspective | point of view |
| distance | an amount of space between 2 things |
| direction | course witch someone/something moves |
| enviroment | setting/conditions in wich a particular activity is carried on |
| equinox | two points on the celestial sphere at witch the ecliptic |
| equator | he imaginary great circle around the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles and perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation |
| relative | accurate but very general |
| parallels | Be side by side with (something extending in a line), always keeping the same distance. |
| movement | An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed. |
| human enviroment interaction | how humans adapt to environment |
| regions | divide the world into manageble units for geographic study |
| Tropic of Cancer | A line of latitude located at 23°30' south of the equator |
| meridians | are longitude lines That intersect at the poles and are |
| tropic zone | all the land and water of the earth situated |
| proximity | the region close around a person or thing 2 |
| latitude | The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator, measured in degrees along a meridian, as on a map or globe. |
| longitude | Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. |
| vector | A quantity, such as velocity, completely specified by a magnitude and a direction |
| bearing | to have an effect or influence on something, or not have any effect or influence: |
| coordinates | the position of a point on the surface of the Earth with respect to the reference spheroid. |
| prime meridian | The zero meridian (0°), used as a reference line from which longitude east and west is measured. It passes through Greenwich, England. |
| hemisphere | one-half of a sphere, where the sphere may be divided by any plane that includes the center of the sphere. |
| tropic of Capricorn | The parallel of latitude approximately 23°27 south. It forms the boundary between the Torrid and South Temperate zones. |
| cardinals direction | One of the four principal directions on a compass (north, south, east, or west). |
| intermediate directions | the directions or points that would fall in between your standard N, S, E, W points on a compass. |
| place | the name of a geographical location, such as a town or area |
| international dateline | An imaginary line through the Pacific Ocean roughly corresponding to 180° longitude, |
| ecology | The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. |
| adaptation | The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure of an organism to become more suited to an environment. |
| climate | The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. |
| compose-rose | A circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart. |
| lengend/key | hows what all the icons on the map mean. |
| scale | a ratio which compares a measurement on a map to the actual distance between locations |
| solstice | the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator |
| poles | the regions contiguous to the extremities of the earth's rotational axis, the North Pole or the South Pole. |
| G.P.S | gallons per second |
| G.I.S | system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. |
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ksharrington4
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