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| citizen | a member of a town or city, a state, or a country |
| landform | one of the shapes that makeup the Earth's surface |
| environment | surrounding |
| physical feature | a feature that has been formed by nature |
| natural resource | something found in nature that people can use |
| climate | the kind of weather a place has over a long time |
| region | an area with at least one feature that sets it apart from other areas |
| equator | an imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles |
| hemisphere | half of the Earth |
| prime meridan | an imaginary line that the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| continent | one of the seven main areas of land on the Earth |
| map title | the words that tell you the subject of a map |
| boundary | the border or the edge of a place |
| map key | the part of a map that explains what the symbols on a map stand for |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| compass rose | the direction marker on a map |
| cardinal directions | the four main directions: north, south, east, west |
| intermediate directions | the directions between the cardinal directions |
| locator | a small map or globe that shows where the place on a main map is located in a state, in a country, or in the world |
| map scale | the part of the map that compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world |
| inset map | a small map within a larger map |
| grid | on a map the lines that cross each to form a pattern of squares used to locate places |
| history | the study of the past |
| geography | the study of the Earth's surface |
| event | something that happens |
| historian | a person that studies the past |
| geographer | a person whose work is to study geography |
| time line | a diagram that shows the events that took place during a certain period of time |
| point of view | a person's set of beliefs that have been shaped by many factors |
| government | a system for deciding what is best for a group of people |
| economy | is the way people use their resources to meet their needs |
| economics | the study of how people use their resources to meet their needs |
| culture | a way of life |
| location | where something can be found |
| human features | features that have been made by people |
