Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| 1.Geography | Where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
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| 2.GIS | Uses computer technology to collect, manipulate, analyze and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems.
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| 3.Absolute Location | It's position on the globe.
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| 4.Hemisphere | Half.
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| 5.Relative Location | It's relation compared to other places.
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| 6.Character of a Place | Consists of the place's physical characteristics and human characteristics.
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| 7.Perception | Viewpoint that is influenced by one's own culture and experiences.
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| 8.Formal Region | Areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area.
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| 9.Functional Region | Consist of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it.
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| 10.Perceptual Region | Defined by people's feelings and attitudes about areas.
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| 11.Core | Center.
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| 12.Mantle | Thick layer of rock, around the core.
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| 13.Crust | Rocky surface layer.
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| 14.Lithosphere | Soil, rocks, and other surface features.
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| 15.Atmosphere | Layer of air, water and other substances above the surface.
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| 16.Hydroshepere | Consists of water in oceans, lakes and rivers, even under the ground.
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| 17.Biosphere | world of plants, animals and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet.
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| 18.Continents | Large landmasses placed in the oceans.
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| 19.Relief | The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points.
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| 20.Plate Tectonics | The theory that the Earth's outer shell isn't one solid sheet of rock.
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| 21.Continental Drift Theory | A supercontinent broke up into seperate continenets.
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| 22.Ring of Fire | A circle of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
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| 23.Weathering | The chemical or mechanical process by which rock is gradually broken down, eventually becoming soil.
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| 24.Mechanical Weathering | The actual breaking up or physical weakening of rock by forces such as ice and roots.
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| 25.Chemical Weathering | The process by which the actual chemical structure of rock is changed, usually when in water and carbon dioxide cause a breakdown of the rock.
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| 26.Acid Rain | Rain whose high concentration of chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock;a form of chemical weathering.
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| 27.Erosion | The movement of weathered materials, including gravel, soil, and sand, usually caused by water, wind and glaciers.
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| 28.Sediment | Particles of soil and rock carried and deposited by water, wind, and ice.
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| 29.Loess | Fine-grained, mineral-rich loam, dust, or silt deposited by the wind.
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| 30.Glacier | A huge, slow moving mass of snow and ice.
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| 31.Moraine | A ridgelike mass of rock, gravel, sand and clay carried and deposited by a glacier.
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