chapter 1 vocabulary
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| 1. geography | is the study of where people,places,and things are located and how they related to each other.
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| 2. GIS | uses computer technology to collect,manipulate, analyze.
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| 3. absolute location | the position on the globe.
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| 4. hemisphere | this is what the equator divides into.
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| 5. reletive location | the relation compared to other locations.
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| 6. character of a place | consists of the place's phisical characteristics.
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| 7. preceition | is a view point that is influenced by ones own culture.
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| 8. formal regions | are areas in witch certain characteristics are found throughout the area.
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| 9.functional regions | consists of a central area and the surrounding area's.
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| 10. perceptual regions | are defined by peoples attitudes about area's.
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| 11.core | the earths center consisting of very hot mental that is dense and solid on the inner core and molten, liquid, in the outer core.
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| 12.mantle | a layer of mostly hard rock below the earths crust.
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| 13.crust | the solid, rockey layer of the .
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| 14.lithosephere | the surface features of the earth,including soil, rocks, and landforms.
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| 15.atmosphere | the layer of gases, water vapor, and other substances above the earth.
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| 16.hydroshere | the water contained in oceans,lakes,rivers,and under the ground.
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| 17.bioshere | the world of plants, animals, and other living things in earth's land and water.
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| 18.continent | any of the 7 large landmasses on the earths surface, africa, antartica,
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| 19.releif | the difference in elevation, or height, of the landforms in any paticular area
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| 20.plate tectonics | the theory that the earth's outer shell is composed of a number of large, unanchored pates, pr slabs of rock, whose constant movement explains earthquakes.
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| 21.continental drift theory | the idea that continents slowly drift their position due to movement of the tectonics plates on which they ride.
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| 22.ring of fire | a ring of volcanic mountains surronding 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 of or physical weakening
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| 25.chemical wethering | the process of which the actual chemical structure of rock is changed, usually when water and carbon dioxide cause a breakdown of the rock.
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| 26.acid rain | Rain who's high concentration of chemicals usually from , Industrial pollution pollutes water, Kills plants 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 whethered materials, including gravel, soil and sand, Usually caused by water, wind, and glaciers.
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| 28.sediment |
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| 29.loess | Fine – grained, Mineral rich loan, dust, or silk deposited by the wind.
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| 30.glaciar | A smooch, slow-moving mass of snow and ice.
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| 31.moraine | A ridge like mass of rock, gravel, sand, and Clay carried in the posited by glacier.
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| 37.equinox | Either of the two times each year when day and night are of nearly equal links everywhere on earth.
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| 38.precipitation | All the forms of water that falls to earth from the atmosphere, including rain and snow.
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| 39.front | The boundary between two masses of air that differ in density or temperature.
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| 40.continental | Any of the seven largely masses of the earth surface Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America..
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