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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Latitude | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
| Longitude | an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator |
| Absolute location | The exact spot on earth where something is found(Niamey, the capital of niger, is located at 13 degrees 31' north latitude and 2 degrees 7' east longitude) |
| Relative location | The postion of a place in relation to other places(Yosemite National park is located north of los angeles, California, and east of San Francisco, California) |
| Place | can be described by physical characteristics including, weather, land features, plants, animals also by human features including, culture and ideas |
| Human-Environment Interaction | people either adapt to their environment or they change it |
| Movement | people meet their needs either by traveling to other places or by trading with people in other places |
| Region | an area that can be defined by common characteristics |
| Rotation | a complete spin on the earths axis (represents one day) |
| Revolution | orbits around the earth a time 365 1/4 days (represents one year) |
| Tilt | The tilt of the earths axis always facing the north star, canbe dark all day or light all day depending on the tilt and location |
| Equinox | either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length |
| Solstice | either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator |
| Characteristics of water | can exist as a liquid, gas, or solid can desolve almost anything over a period of time heats slowly and cools slowly compaired to to most of earths materials |
| rock weathering | the process of breaking up rock very slow and almost impossible to detect |
| Water Weathering | Most powerful form of erosion and transportation |
| Glaciers Weathering | Biggest change in land erosion, think sheet of ice |
| Wind Weathering | have the biggest affect where plants are holding soil together |
| Three types of plate boundaries | Convergent Boundaries, Transform Boundaries, Divergent Boundaries |
| Climate | weather conditions in an area average over a long peried of time |
| Weather | the conditions of the atmosphere at a given place and time |
| Headwaters | the first and smallest streams to form from the run off of precipitation flowing down the slopes of hills and mountains |
| Aquifer | A rock layer though which groundwater flows easily |
| watershed | an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries |
| tributary | a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river |
| isthmus | a narrow neck of land that acts as a bridge to connect two larger bodies of land |
| fjord | a narrow deep inlet of the sea between high, rocky cliffs created by glaciers |
| fold | a feature of earths crust created by the bending of rock layers |
| fault | a feature of earths crust created by the breaking and movement of rock layers below the surface |
| sediment | small particals of mud sand or gravel created by rock weathering |
| subduction | the process in which a tectonic plate collides with and dives under another tectonic plate |
| plateau | an elevated flat land |
| floodplain | a landform on level ground built by sediment deposited by river or stream |
| industrialization | the process in which manufacturing based on machine power becomes wide spread in an area |
| urbanization | a growth in the population of people living in towns and cities |
| demography | the study that emphasizes statistics to look at human population distribution, population density and trends in population |
| infrastructure | facilities and structures such as roads, bridges and power plants, that are needed to build industries and move goods in and out of a country |
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