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22 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Location
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Where a place is on the globe
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Character of a Place
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The physical and human characteristics of a place
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Formal Region
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A place where certain characteristics are found in that area
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Functional Region
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A central place that affects the surrounding land area
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Geography
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The study of the location of where people, places, and things are and how they relate to each other
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Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Uses computer technology to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display data about Earths surface to help solve geographic problems
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Hemisphere
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Half of the Earth
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Perception
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How you see things by the way you were raised
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Perceptual Region
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Defined how people act and feel about an area
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Relative Location
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A relation compared to other places
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Acid Rain
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When chemicals in polluted air mix with water vapor
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Atmosphere
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Layer of air, water, and other substances above the Earths surface
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Biosphere
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The world of plants animals, and other living things
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Chemical Weathering
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When rocks are chemically changed
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Continent
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Large land masses in the ocean (7 of them, or 6 for some people)
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Continental Drift Theory
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Used to be a super continent, but they split and drifted away
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Core
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The middle of the Earth; Hot metal; Dense and solid
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Crust
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The outermost layer of the Earth; What we live and stand on
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Glacier
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Huge, slow-moving sheets of ice
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Hydrosphere
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Water in oceans, lakes, rivers, and underground
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Lithosphere
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Soil, rocks, landforms, and other surface features
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Loess
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Deposits of windblown mineral rich dust and silt
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