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| GEOGRAPHY | study of the earth and of the ways people live and work on it |
| ABSOLUTE LOCATION | exact location of a place on the earth's surface |
| RELATIVE LOCATION | position of a place in relation to other places |
| PLACE | answers the question "What is the place like?" |
| HUMAN/ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION | deals with how people use, adapt to, or change their environment |
| MOVEMENT | looks at how people and places are linked together |
| REGIONS | term used by geographers to organize the world |
| LANDFORMS | natural features of the earth's land surface |
| ELEVATION | height above sea level |
| CORE | center of the earth |
| MANTLE | surrounds the core |
| CRUST | outer part of the mantle |
| TECTONIC PLATE | separate sections of the earth |
| CONTINENTAL DRIFT | movement of the plates |
| VOLCANO | cone-shaped mountains made when melted rock called lava flows up from the earth's mantle, cracks the crust, and then cools into solid rock |
| EARTHQUAKE | sudden shifts in the earth's crust |
| CLIMATE | pattern of weather over a period of time |
| LATITUDE | distance north or south of the equator |
| LONGITUDE | distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
| TROPICAL ZONE | area found between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn |
| TEMPERATE ZONE | area found between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle |
| POLAR ZONE | area north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle |
| PREVAILING WINDS | winds that blow in a certain direction most of the time |
