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Geography
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Location | Tells you where it is |
| Place | What is it like when you get there |
| Movement | People and ideas get around |
| Human environment interaction | What do the people do to the environment? What does the environment do for the people? |
| Regions | What do locations have in common?-- Climate, religion, language, education |
| Latitude | measures south and north and run from east and west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
| Longitude | measures east and west and the lines run from north to south |
| Hemispere | Half of a sphere |
| Equator | earth into 0 degrees Latitude and divides the north and south hemispheres |
| Compass | shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST |
| Continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continents |
| Country | territory of a nation |
| State | Florida is a state |
| Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude and divides the east and west hemispheres |