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48 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Location
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Where a place is geographically, using latitude and longitude
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Relative Location
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Where a place is in relation to other places
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Down the street and left at the stop sign...
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Interaction of People and Places
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Relationships between people and their environment is called interactions. People are constantly interacting with their environment to meet their basic needs.
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relationships
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Parallels of Latitude
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An imaginary line which goes around the Earth parallel to the Equator
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up and down
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Meridians of Longitude
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An imaginary line which passes through the North and South Poles and goes around the Earth. It measures the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
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Side to side
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Prime Meridian
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meridian of 0° longitude from which other longitudes are calculated
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Cartographer
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A person who makes maps
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Map Projection
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A realistic way of drawing the features of the globe on a flat map
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Mollweide Projection
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A type of equal area map projection that uses curved lines of longitude to reduce the distortion of the earth’s surface.
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Distortion
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The amount that an actual shape is twisted or pulled out of shape.
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Landsat Map:
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mosaic of image taken from earth orbit by a Landsat satellite.
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Mosaic
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A combination of separate images which are put together to form a complete image of a large area.
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Environment
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The surrounding conditions or forces that influence or modify the whole complex of factors (as soil, climate, and living things) that influence the form and the ability to survive of a plant or animal or ecological community.
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Human Geography
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A study of the characteristics of the environment.
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Thickness of Earth’s Crust
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core which is approximately 7000 kilometres in diameter (3500 kilometres in radius) and is located at the Earth's center. The mantle surrounds the core and has a thickness of 2900 kilometres. The crust floats on top of the mantle. It is composed of basalt rich oceanic crust and granitic rich continental crust.
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Magma
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: molten rock material within the earth
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Sedimentary Rock
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Rock formed by deposition; layers of sediment are deposited and compressed over time.
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Five Major Landforms
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: Mountains, Plateaus, Hills, Plains, and Valleys
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Moraines
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A large deposit of rock and mud dropped by a glacier when it melts and recedes
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Drumlins
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: a long or oval hill of material left by a glacier
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Absolute Location
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Where a place is geographically, using latitude and longitude
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Exact
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Relative Location
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Where a place is in relation to other places
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Down the street and left at the stop sign...
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Interaction of People and Places
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Relationships between people and their environment is called interactions. People are constantly interacting with their environment to meet their basic needs.
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relationships
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Parallels of Latitude
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An imaginary line which goes around the Earth parallel to the Equator
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up and down
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Meridians of Longitude
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An imaginary line which passes through the North and South Poles and goes around the Earth. It measures the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
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Side to side
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Estuaries
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passage where the tide meets a river current; especially an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river.
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Deltas
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The triangular or fan-shaped piece of land made by deposits of mud and sand at the mouth of a river
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Flood Plains
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: Land form when silt settles out after a river floods
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Leaching
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To wash away nutrients from soil as the result of heavy rain.
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Four Major Soil Types
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: Sandy, Clay, Loam, and Silty
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Jet Stream
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A very high air current that usually travels from west to east at speeds of more than 350km/hr
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Deciduous
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Trees which lose there leaves in winter, e.g. oak, birch, popular
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Coniferous
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Trees that are cone bearing and generally keep their leaves or needles through winter, e.g. pine, fir, cedar.
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Population Density
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How the population of a region, country, etc… is spread out.
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4 Types of Industries
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: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary
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5 Types of Physical Regions
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Geological, Vegetation, Soil, Climatic, and Landforms
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5 Types of Human Regions
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: Population Density, Economic, Time Zone, Cultural, and Political
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Plate Tectonics
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A theory based on the belief that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart.
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Erosion
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A natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface.
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Eskers
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A winding ridge of sand, gravel, and small rocks, believed to be deposited by a glacial melt water stream.
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Silt
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Fine soil or sand carried by rivers and deposited near oceans or lakes
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Deposition
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In geography, laying down layers of eroded material that has been transported by water, wind or gravity
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Temperature Inversion
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A weather condition that occurs when a layer of high warm air traps a layer of lower cooler air.
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Themes of Geography
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Location, Place, Movement, Regions and Interaction
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Prime Meridian
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The first meridian (0o Longitude) which passes through the Greenwich Observatory Center in London, England.
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Equator
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An imaginary line around the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles and perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation. It divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
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Weather
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The earth’s atmospheric conditions at a designed place and time.
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Climate
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The description of average weather patterns over a number of years
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