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show exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude  
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show a layer of gases surrounding the planet that is retained by Earth's gravity  
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Biosphere   show
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show imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a reference surface, such as mean sea level  
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show a place associated with people eg. historic monument  
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GIS   show
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GPS   show
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show steepness of slopes  
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show the liquid water component of the Earth.  
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show how humans depend upon, adapt to and modify the environment  
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Latitude   show
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show includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute the hard and rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth  
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Longitude   show
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show eg. human migration, atmospheric circulation, ocean currents  
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Region   show
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show a description of how a place is related to other places. For example, the Empire State building is 365 kilometers (227 miles) north of the White House in Washington  
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Remote sensing   show
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show the relationship between distance on a map and on the earth's surface eg 1:25 000  
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Topographic   show
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show grid coordinate system, which divides the earth into a perpendicular grid with constant linear surface distances, in meters, between each of its grid lines in all directions  
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