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12 Cards in this Set
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Latitude
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lines that measure how far something is north or south of the Equator
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Longitude
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lines that measure how far something is east or west of the Prime Meridian
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Equator
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0 degrees Latitude
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Prime Meridian
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0 degrees Longitude
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Hemispheres
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half of the Earth (Northern,Southern,Western,Eastern)
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Mountains
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make it hard to travel (why Greece had city-states)
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Rivers
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help transportation and places where civilizations started
(Nile, Euphrates and Tigris, Indus, Yellow) |
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Plains
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flat fertile land- good for farming
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Culture
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a group of people's way of life
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Society
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the type of people in a culture
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Art
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expression of a people's ideas (dance, music)
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Geography
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the land and location of a culture (physical features, climate, materials)
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