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Geography
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Term | Definition |
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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, states are territories - borders of a nation |
Hemisphere | Half of a sphere [Earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east and west hemisphere] |
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 |
Prime Meridian- | 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into east and west |
Equator- | - 0 degrees Latitude and divides the earth into north and south hemispheres |
Compass - | shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST |