geography vocab
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Absolute Location | specific, exact point of reference
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Relative Location | less specific but still accurate
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Perspective | a persons way of seeing something based on their belief or culture
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Distance | how far away something is from a place
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Direction | a way to go such as North, South, East, or West
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Bearing | horizontal direction of one point with respect to another or to the compass
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Coordinate | specific point on a map example:(0°,0°)
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Vector | a course or compass direction
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Equator | Location on the Earth that has a latitude of 0°
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Parallel | lines of latitude
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Prime Meridian | location on the earth that has a longitude of 0°
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Meridian | lines of longitude
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Hemisphere | Half of the world
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Tropic of Cancer | Latitude of 23.5° North. Northern limit of the Sun's declination.
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Tropic of Capricorn | North, South, East, and West
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Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, and West
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Intermediate Directions | Northwest,Northeast,Southwest,Southeast
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Location | characteristics: direction, distance, proximity: measured by length
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Place | physical and human characteristics of a place
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Movement | how things, people and animals get from place to place
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Human Environment Interaction | how humans affect the environment, how the environment affects humans, how humans adapt to the environment
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Region | regions divide the world into managable units for geographic study
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Latitude | Latitude is a north-south measurement of position on the Earth
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International Dateline | a line drawn almost parrellel to the 180 degree longitude meridian which marks the location where each day officially begins.
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Tropic Zone | the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn
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Environment | everything that surrounds us, both natural and man-made
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Ecology | a unique environment
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proximity | nearness, or vicinity to something
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longitude | Longitude is a west-east measurement of position on the Earth.
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adaptation | how living things live in their unique environment
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climate | average weather in a region over a long period of time
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compass rose | a piece of a map that shows the cardinal and intermediate directions
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legend/key | a piece of a map that shows the meaning of symbols used on the map
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scale | a piece of a map that shows distance
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equinox(2) | either of two times in the year when night and day are of equal length
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solstice(2) | either of two times in the year when the sun is farthest from the equator
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poles | one end of the earth, north or south
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GPS(global positioning system) | a satellite based navigation system
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GIS(geographic information system) | a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical
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