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Ms. studies ch. 1
Ms. studies vocab
Question | Answer |
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Location | focuses on where a place is in relation to other places or in terms of longitude and latitude |
Place | focuses on the physical and human or cultural characteristics of a particular location |
Human environment interactions | describes how humans use and interact with the environment |
Movement | concerns the ways in which people are linked with regions, cultures, and people beyond our immediate environment |
Regions | allows geographers to define an area in terms of one or more characteristics |
Latitude | a measurement of distance in degrees north and south of the equator |
Longitude | a measurement of distance east to west of the meridian |
Global positioning system | a radio system that allows land, sea and airborne users to know their exact location |
Natural environment | all living and non living things that are natural |
Tornado | a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground |
Hurricane | a large rotating tropical storm that has wind speeds up to at least 120 km/h most powerful storm on earth |
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 |
What are Mississippis bordering states? | Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas |
What is Mississippis climate and why? | Humid subtropical because it isn't quite warm or rainy enough to be considered tropical |
What does antebellum mean? | before war |
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 |
What is a Plato? | an area of relatively high ground |
Relative location is what? | figuring our location using the borders around us |
What is our absolute location? | 30 degrees-35 degrees N above the equator and 88 degrees-91 degrees W longitude |
What are the four spheres? | Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, and Hydrosphere |
Atmosphere | contains oxygen clouds etc. |
Lithosphere | (land) on earths surface |
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. |
What is the lowest and highest temperature recorded in Mississippi? | -19 degrees in corinth and 115 degrees holly springs |