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| Absolute Location | The exact spot on earth where something is found. Often stated in latitude or longtitude |
| Relative Location | The position of a place in relation to other places. |
| Merideans | another name for longitude lines |
| Parrallels | another name for latiude lines |
| Basin | a low area of land generally surrounded by mountains |
| Bay | Inlet of sea or other water, smaller than gulf |
| Canal | Artificial waterway |
| Cape | a point of extension of land that is smaller than a pennisula |
| Delta | The landform at the mouth of river created by deposites |
| Gulf | Large portion of water that is partially inclosed |
| Island | Body of land smaller than a continent that is surrounded by water |
| Mountain Range | Bunch of mountains close together |
| Peninsula | A landform bordered by water on 3 sides |
| Plain | Nearly flat area of land |
| River source | Where a river starts |
| River Mouth | Where a river empties into a larger body of water |
| Sea | a body of salt water that is smaller than an ocean |
| Strait | A narrow channel that connects two larger bodies of water |
| Valley | A depression between ranges of hills where river usually form |
| Plateau | An elevated flatland |
| Rotation | One complete spin of the earth on its axis. Takes 24 hours makes day and nights |
| Revolution | When the earth goes around the sun creating years |
| Equinox | One of Two times a year when earths polar axis tilt farthest or closes to the sun |
| Location | Absolute, and relative |
| Place | The physical surroundings |
| Movement | Transportation of people, goods, and ideas. |
| Human- Enviroment Interaction | How people and the enviroment Interact. How people Adapt to it, or change it |
| Region | area w/ common characteristics |
| Culture | The features of societys way of life. |
| Culture Traits | Activities and Behaviors people repeatively do. |
| Culture Region | An area with many shared culture traits |
| Innovation | New ideas which are accepted into a culture |
| Diffusion | When innovation or other culture traits spread into another culture region. |
| Acculturation | This occurs when one culture changes a great deal through its meeting with another culture |
| Hunting and gathering | 1st stage of development |
| Agriculture | 2nd stage of development |
| Urbanization | 3rd stage of development |
| Industrialization | 4th stage of development |
| Causes of conflicts between Cultures | Nationalism, Religion, Traditional Vs. Modern Values, Politics, Economics |
| Infrastructure | The facilities such as roads briges and paved roads that are need to build industries |
| Renewable resources | Forest, Water, Air, Soil, Solar Energy |
| Non-Renewable resources | Coal, Minerals, Natural Gases, Oil |
| Demography | The study that emphasises the use of statistics to look at human population growth, distubation, and density |
| 1st of four dense regions | Eastern Asia |
| 2nd of four dense regions | Soutn Asia |
| 3rd of four dense regions | Western Europe |
| 4th of four dense regions | Eastern North America |
