Social Studies
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| The world in spacial terms | Location is important because it gives you a sense of awareness in where you live.
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| Places | Location and characteristics.
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| Region | United places by 1 or more common characteristic.
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| Physical Systems | Shape of the Earths surface.
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| Human Systems | How people have shaped our world.
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| Enviroment and society | How actions have affected the enviroment.
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| Uses of Geography | Using geography to understand things.
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| Absolute location | the precise point where a place is located on Earth.
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| Distortion | A change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.
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| Relative Location | Where a place is located in relation to another place.
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| Basin | A bowl shaped depression, or hollow, in the Earth's surface.
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| Bay | Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline; generally smaller than a gulf.
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| Canyon | A deep and narrow valley with steep walls.
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| Delta | A triangle shaped deposit of sand and sediment that occure where a river flows into an ocean.
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| Gulf | A large inlet of the sea that cuts into land; generally larger and more deeply intended than a bay.
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| Island | A land area smaller than a continent, that is surrounded by water.
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| Isthumus | A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land masses.
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| Lake | A sizeable inland body of water.
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| Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains.
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| Peninsula | A long, narrow stretch of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
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| Plain | An area of level land, usually at a low elevation and often covered with grasses.
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| Plateau | A raised area of land such as a hill or mountain, with a flat top.
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| River | A large natural stream of water that runs through the land.
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| Strait | A narrow stretch of water that runs through the land.
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| Tributary | A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
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| Volcano | A mountain created as a liquid rock or ash errupts from inside the earth.
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| Physical Features | The names, locations, and shapes of landforms and bodies of water.
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| Climate Zones | Earth's climate zones.
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| Vegetation Zones | Where plants will grow by dividing the world into these zones.
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| Population density | Population density or how crowded it is.
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| Economic Activity | Land use which is how people use their land to meet their needs.
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| Latitude | >>>>>
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| Longtitude | ^^^
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