Geography Vocabulary
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| Absolute Location | Specific, exact point of reference address
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| Relative | Accurate but very general
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| Perspective | personal view of the world
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| Proxmity | nearness in space, time or relationship
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| Distance | An amount of space between two things or people
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| Direction | A course along which someone or something moves
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| Bearing | A person's way of standing or moving
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| Coordinates | each of a group of numbers used to indicate the postion of a point, line or plane
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| Vector | Direct (an aircraft in flight) to a desired point
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| Equator | 0 degrees latitude
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| Parallel | lines of latitude
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| Prime Meridian | Imaginary lines that divides the earth into eastern and western halves. 0 degrees line longitude
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| Meridian | lines of longitude
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| Hemisphere | Any half of the earth
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| Tropic Of Cancer | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator
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| Tropic Of Capricorn | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator
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| Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, West
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| Intermediate points | Northeast, Southeast, East-west
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| Location | A particular place or position
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| Place | A particular position or place
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| Movement | an act of changing physical location or position or of having this change
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| Human Environmental Interaction | Looks at the relationships between people and environment
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| Region | Large area that is different from the areas around it. A region can be defined by a single feature or by several features, either natural or cultural
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| Latitude | imaginary lines joining points or earth's surface that are all of equal distance north or south of the equator
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| Longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian, as measured in degrees of a circle
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| International dateline | an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following the 180th meridian (180 degrees longitude)
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| Tropic Zone | the part of the earths surface between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn
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| Environment | Everything that surrounds, both natural and/or man-made
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| Ecology | A unique environment with unique characteristics
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| Adaptation | living things learn to live in their unique environment/ ecosystems
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| Climate | Average weather in a region over a long period of time
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| Compass rose | a circle showing the principal of directions printed on a map or chart
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| Legend/key | Tells you about specific icons or colors on a game or map
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| Scale | the ratio between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on earth
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| equinox | the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earths equator making night and day equal all around the world
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| Solstice | either of the two times of the year the sun is at its greatest from the equator
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| Poles | North and south poles
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| GPS | Global Positioning System
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| GIS | Georgraphic Information System is a system of hardware and software used for storage and mapping
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