| A | B |
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| landscape | human and physical features that make a place unique |
| social science | field that studies people and the relationships among them region part of the world with one or more common features distinguishing it from surrounding areas |
| geography | study of the world’s physical features |
| human geography | study of the world’s people |
| absolute | location using lat and long |
| relative location | general description of where a place is environment an area’s land |
| map | flat drawing that shows part of Earth’s surface globe spherical model of the entire planet |
| Global Positioning System | tool that RECIEVES satellites to transmit locations of objects on Earth |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | information from many geographic data sources |
| grid | imaginary lines that circle Earth in east–west and north–south directions latitude east–west lines in the grid |
| parallels line on a map | lines of latitude |
| longitude | north–south lines in the grid meridians lines of longitude |
| degrees | units of measurement that locate lines of latitude and longitude |
| minutes | unit of measurement that is 1/60 of a degree |
| equator imaginary | line that circles the globe halfway between the North Equator |
| prime meridian | imaginary line that divides the globe into east and west halves PM |
| hemispheres | northern and southern or eastern and western halves of |
| continents | seven large landmasses on Earth’s surface |
| map projections | ways that our round planet can be shown on a flat map |
