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| geography | study of the earth, its people and space |
| physical geography | the study of land, water, plants, and animals |
| human geography | study of where people live, how they live, how they change, and how people are influenced by their environment |
| landform | a land shape, such as a mountain, plain, or plateau |
| region | an area that shares common characteristics; one of the five themes of geography |
| Global Positioning System | a group of satellites travelling around the earth to tell the exact location of a place |
| Geographic Information Systems | computer software that helps a geographer gather different information about the same place |
| environment | natural surroundings |
| geo | earth |
| graph | root word that means writing or study of |
| five | the number of major ideas in the study of geography |
| place | a theme of geography that explores what a place looks like; the theme is a description of a place, its human and physical features |
| human environment interaction | one of the five themes of geography that explains how people use, modify and adapt to their natural surroundings |
| location | a theme of geography that explains where a place is on the earth's surface |
| movement | a theme of geography that explains the movement of people, ideas, and goods to different areas around the world; why they're moved, and how they're moved |
| absolute location | a type of location that expresses an exact location, such as street address and global address |
| global address | absolute location, using latitude and longitude |
| relative location | where a place is in relation to another place or the things around it |
| mr lip | an acronym that helps me to remember the first letters in the five themes |
| five themes of geography | movement, location, region, place, and interaction |
| exact | another word for absolute in the discussion of absolute location |
| the intersection of latitude and longitude | a global address of a place in the world |
| street address | an example of absolute location |
| globe | a round model of the earth |
| map | a flat representation or drawing of the earth or parts of the earth |
| hemi | a root word meaning half; synonym of demi and semi |
| sphere | a shape of a round ball |
| earth | a spherical planet in the solar system |
| hemisphere | the earth can be divided into halves: north and south with the equator and east and west with the prime meridian and international date line |
| latitude | lines that run from east to west and measure distances in degrees north and south of the equator |
| longitude | lines that run from north to south and measure distances in degrees east and west of the prime meridian |
| degree | unit of measurement for measuring a sphere, latitude and longitude |
| interval | the equal spacing between lines of latitude and longitude |
| North Pole | the northernmost point on the surface of the earth |
| South Pole | the southernmost point on the surface of the earth |
| prime meridian | the 0 degree longitude line |
| international date line | the 180 degree longitude line |
| equator | 0 degree latitude line |
| 90 degrees north | how the latitude line for the north pole is written |
| 90 degrees south | how the latitude line is written for the south pole |
| change | themes of movement and human-environment interaction cause ______________ |
| natural or cultural | regions may include features that are |
| culture | how people use their resources is linked to |
| culture region | a group of people from many countries that have a similar way of life |
| physical region | an area of the world that has similar landforms, water features, or climate |
| political region | an area of the world that is identified by its government and boundaries |
| international | a boundary between countries |
| state | a boundary between states within a country |
| continental | a boundary between continents |
| trade | an activity in the theme of movement |
| easier | breaking the world into regions makes the study of geography _____________ to understand |
