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| Location | focuses on where a place is in relation to other places or in terms of longitude and latitude
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| Place | focuses on the physical and human or cultural characteristics of a particular location
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| Human environment interactions | describes how humans use and interact with the environment
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| Movement | concerns the ways in which people are linked with regions, cultures, and people beyond our immediate environment
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| Regions | allows geographers to define an area in terms of one or more characteristics
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| Latitude | a measurement of distance in degrees north and south of the equator
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| Longitude | a measurement of distance east to west of the meridian
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| Global positioning system | a radio system that allows land, sea and airborne users to know their exact location
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| Natural environment | all living and non living things that are natural
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| Tornado | a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground
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| Hurricane | a large rotating tropical storm that has wind speeds up to at least 120 km/h most powerful storm on earth
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| What are the four regions in Mississippi and where are they on Mississippi? | delta top, hills below delta, piney woods below hills and gulf coast at the bottom where Biloxi is
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| What are Mississippis bordering states? | Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas
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| What is Mississippis climate and why? | Humid subtropical because it isn't quite warm or rainy enough to be considered tropical
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| What does antebellum mean? | before war
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| Why is the Yazzoo basin (delta) important to Mississippi? | it has some of the most fertile soil in the world it is also the most southern place in Mississippi
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| What is a Plato? | an area of relatively high ground
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| Relative location is what? | figuring our location using the borders around us
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| What is our absolute location? | 30 degrees-35 degrees N above the equator and 88 degrees-91 degrees W longitude
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| What are the four spheres? | Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, and Hydrosphere
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| Atmosphere | contains oxygen clouds etc.
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| Lithosphere | (land) on earths surface
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| Some of the Native American Laws are..... | Honor all your relations, Give assistance and kindness wherever needed, earth is our mother; care for her, Do what you know to be right.
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| What is the lowest and highest temperature recorded in Mississippi? | -19 degrees in corinth and 115 degrees holly springs
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