Vocabulary
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| 1.Geography | The study of the earth's surface and the processes that shape it, the connections between places, and complex relationships between people and their environment.
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| 2.GIS | A geographic information system, witch uses computer technology to collect and analyze data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems.
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| 3.Absolute location | The position on in witch a place can be found.
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| 4.Hemisphere | A half of the earth; the equator divides the northern and southern hemisphere; the prime meridian divides the eastern and the western hemisphere.
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| 5.Relative location | The position of a place in relation to another place.
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| 6.Character of a place | Physical and human features that help to distinguish a place from other places.
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| 7.Perception | View point is influenced by ones own culture and experiences.
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| 8.Formal region | Group of places that have similar attributes, for example, political region.
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| 9.Functional region | Group of places connected by movement.
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| 10.Perceptual region | Group of places defined by peoples feelings.
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| 11.Core | The earths center, consisting of very hot metal that is dense and solid in the inner core.
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| 12.Mantle | A thick layer of mostly rock under the earths crust that surrounds the earths core.
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| 13.Crust | Solid rocky layer of the earth.
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| 14.Lithosphere | The surface features of the earth, including soil, rock, and land forms.
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| 15.Atmosphere | Layer of gas, water vapor, and other substances above the earth.
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| 16.Hydrosphere | Water contained in Oceans, lakes, rivers, and under the ground.
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| 17.Biosphere | World of plants, animals, and other living things in earths land and water.
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| 18.Continent | Any of the seven large land masses of earth.
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| 19.Relief | The difference in elevation, or height, of the land forms in any particular area.
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| 20.Plate Tectonics | Theory that the earths outer shell is composed of a number of large, anchored plates, or slabs of rock, whose constant movement explains earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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| 21.Continental drift theory | Idea that the continents are constantly moving dew to the movement of the plates.
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| 22.Ring of fire | Ring of volcanic mountains surrounding the pacific ocean.
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| 23.Weather | Conditions of the bottom layer of the earths atmosphere in one place over a short period of time.
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| 24.Climate | Term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time.
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| 25.Rotation | Spinning motion of the earth, like a top on its axes
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| 26.Revolution | One completes orbit of the earth around the sun. The earth completes one revolution every 365.25 days.
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| 27.Solstice | Either of the two times a year when the sun appears directly overhead at the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
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| 28.Equinox | Either of the two times each year (spring and fall) when day and night are of nearly equal length everywhere on earth.
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| 29.Percipitation | All of the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere, including rain and snow.
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| 30.Front | The boundary between two masses of air that differ in density or temperature.
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| 31.Continent |
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