| Term | Definition |
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| Geography | The study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other. |
| GIS--Geographic Information System | Uses computer technology to collect, manipulate, analyze and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems. |
| GPS - Global Positioning System | Relies on a network of 24 satellites orbiting the earth to get information about time and locations. |
| Absolute location | The position of a place on the globe |
| Hemispheres | The two halves of the earth divided by the Equator |
| Relative location | A place's location compared to other places |
| Character of a place | The place's physical and human characteristics |
| Physical characteristics | Unique things about a place such as landforms, ecosystems and climate |
| Human characteristics | Unique things about a place such as how many people live and work there or languages and customs |
| Formal regions | Areas in which characteristics are found throughout the area. |
| Functional regions | Consist of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it. |
| Perceptual regions | Defined by people's feelings and attitudes about areas with no precise borders |
| 5 themes of geography | Location, character, regions, movement, and human-environment interaction |
| Weathering | The breakdown of rock at or near the earth's surface into smaller and smaller pieces |
| Mechanical weathering | Occurs when rock is actually broken or weakened physcially |
| Chemical weathering | Process that alters a rock's chemical makeup by changin the minerals that form the rock or combine them with new chemical elements |
| Acid rain | a type of chemical weathering where chemical in the air combine with water vapor and fall back to earth |
| Erosion | the movement of weathered materials such as gravel, soil and sand |
| Sediment | Small particles of soil, sand and gravel carried by swiftly moving water |
| wind, water, glaciers | things that cause erosion |
| glaciers | huge, slow-moving sheets of ice |
| moraines | ridgelike piles of rock and debris left behind when glaciers melt and recede |
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