| A | B |
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| Location | where things are located (absolute and relative) |
| Place | what makes a place different from other places |
| Human/Environment Interaction | how people change the environment to better suit their needs |
| Movement | patterns of movement for people, products and information |
| Regions | dividing the earth into regions for study (regions can be based on area, language, religions, vegetation, culture... etc) |
| latitude | distance north or south of the Equator |
| longitude | distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
| Equator | imaginary line that is 0' latitude |
| Prime Meridian | imaginary line that is 0' longitude |
| tropics | area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn |
| climate | pattern of weather over time |
| compass rose | found on a map, shows N/E/S/W |
| scale | found on a map, used to measure distances |
| continents | large land masses of the world |
| altitude | height above sea level |
| physical maps | maps with landforms and elevations |
| political maps | maps with country boundries and capital cities |
| precipitation | moisture that falls to the ground as rain or snow |
| tundra | type of vegetation in cold, dry regions, mostly mosses and grasses |
| natural vegetation | plant life that grows naturally in a place |
| North Pole | 90' North |
| South Pole | 90' South |
| another name for lines of longitude | meridians |
| another name for lines of latitude | parallels |
| weather | daily condition of the air around us |
| climate | pattern of weather over a long period of time |
| plain | area of land that is primarily flat |
| plateau | elevated area of flat land with steep sides |
| peninsula | land jutting out from mainland and surrounded by water on three sides |
| delta | triangular shaped deposit of mud and silt deposited by a river at its mouth |
| mouth | the end of a river |
| source | the start of a river |
| island | small body of land surrounded by water |
| bay | part of an ocean or lake extending into land |
| isthmus | narrow strip of land joining two large land areas |
| mountain | a very high hill (above 2,000 feet in elevation) |
| tributary | a stream that flows into a larger river |
| valley | low land between hills or mountains |
| the proper way to write absolute location | latitude, longitude |
| Woodland Park is northwest of Colorado Springs | Woodland Park's relative location |
