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Geography-maddie
geography vocab
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | specific, exact point of reference example: address |
| Relative Location | less specific but still accurate |
| Perspective | a persons way of seeing something based on their belief or culture |
| Distance | how far away something is from a place |
| Direction | a way to go such as North, South, East, or West |
| Bearing | horizontal direction of one point with respect to another or to the compass |
| Coordinate | specific point on a map example:(0°,0°) |
| Vector | a course or compass direction |
| Equator | Location on the Earth that has a latitude of 0° |
| Parallel | lines of latitude |
| Prime Meridian | location on the earth that has a longitude of 0° |
| Meridian | lines of longitude |
| Hemisphere | Half of the world |
| Tropic of Cancer | Latitude of 23.5° North. Northern limit of the Sun's declination. |
| Tropic of Capricorn | North, South, East, and West |
| Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, and West |
| Intermediate Directions | Northwest,Northeast,Southwest,Southeast |
| Location | characteristics: direction, distance, proximity: measured by length |
| Place | physical and human characteristics of a place |
| Movement | how things, people and animals get from place to place |
| Human Environment Interaction | how humans affect the environment, how the environment affects humans, how humans adapt to the environment |
| Region | regions divide the world into managable units for geographic study |
| Latitude | Latitude is a north-south measurement of position on the Earth |
| International Dateline | a line drawn almost parrellel to the 180 degree longitude meridian which marks the location where each day officially begins. |
| Tropic Zone | the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn |
| Environment | everything that surrounds us, both natural and man-made |
| Ecology | a unique environment |
| proximity | nearness, or vicinity to something |
| longitude | Longitude is a west-east measurement of position on the Earth. |
| adaptation | how living things live in their unique environment |
| climate | average weather in a region over a long period of time |
| compass rose | a piece of a map that shows the cardinal and intermediate directions |
| legend/key | a piece of a map that shows the meaning of symbols used on the map |
| scale | a piece of a map that shows distance |
| equinox(2) | either of two times in the year when night and day are of equal length |
| solstice(2) | either of two times in the year when the sun is farthest from the equator |
| poles | one end of the earth, north or south |
| GPS(global positioning system) | a satellite based navigation system |
| GIS(geographic information system) | a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical |
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