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| citizen | a member of a town, city, state, or country |
| landform | one of the shapes that make up the Earth's surface, such as mountains, hills, and plains |
| environment | surroundings |
| event | something that happens |
| geography | the study of the Earth's surface and the way people use it |
| geographer | a person whose work is to study geoography |
| physical features | features that have 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 |
| human features | features that have been made by humans |
| region | an area with at least one feature that sets it apart from other areas |
| sphere | a ball |
| equator | an imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Pole |
| hemisphere | half of the Earth |
| prime meridian | an imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere |
| 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 | a border of a place |
| map key | the part of a map that explains what the symbols on the map stand for |
| symbol | something that stands for something else (sometimes on a map) |
| compass rose | a direction marker on a map |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, and west |
| intermediate directions | the directions between the cardinal directions, northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest |
| locator | a small map or globe that shows where the place on the main map is located within a state, country, continent, or the world |
| map scale | the part of a map that compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world |
| inset map | a small map within a larger map |
| grid | on a map the lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares used to locate places |
| history | the study of the past |
| historian | a person who studies the past |
| 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 |
| government | a system for deicdin what is best for a group of people |
| economy | the way people in a state, region, or country use resources to meet their needs |
| economics | the studey of how people use resources to meet their needs |
| culture | a way of life |
