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| population | the # of people living in a place |
| ancestor | someone in a person's family, such as a great-great-grandparent, who lived a long time ago |
| pioneer | a person who helps settle a new land |
| mountain range | a large group of mountains |
| settlement | a small village built by the first people to live in a new place |
| capital city | a city in which government leaders meet and work |
| rural | away from cities and large towns |
| suburb | a small community that is close to a city |
| founder | a person who starts something such as a business or a settlement |
| president | the title given to the leader of the united states of america |
| globe | a model of the earth |
| equator | a line that circles a globe halfway between the north pole and the south pole |
| location | the place where something is found |
| continents | the seven largest land area on earth |
| transportation | the moving of people or things from one place to another |
| map | a picture that shows the location of things |
| border | a line on a map that shows where a state or a nation ends |
| hemisphere | half of the globe when it is divided into either northern and southern halves or eastern and western |
| nation | an area of land with its own people and laws; a country |
| history | the story of what happened in a place |
