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| geography | the study of the earth, how it shape's people's lives, and how it is shaped in turn by people's activities |
| hemisphere | "half a sphere" the earth is divided into four |
| Equator | an imaginary line dividing the world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
| Prime Meridian | an imaginary line dividing the world into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| Longitude Lines | imaginary lines that measure the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian |
| Latitude Lines | imaginary lines that measure the distance nroth and south of the Equator |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, and west |
| intermediate directions | notheast, southeast, northwest, and southwest |
| compass rose | a drawing that shows directions on a map |
| scale | tells how much smaller the distance on a map is compared with the actual distance in real life |
| symbols | anything that stands for something else |
| map key or legend | tells what the symbols stand for on a map |
| island | a body of land that is surrounded by water |
| plain | a large low area of flat or rolling land with few trees |
| prairie | a region of flat or hilly land covered by tall grasses |
| plateau | a flat area of land that is higher than the land around it |
| gulf | a large body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land |
| strait | a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water |
| delta | a fan-shaped deposit of sand and mud at the mouth of a river |
