Social studies k
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- geography
- the study of where people, places, and things are located an of the ways in which things relate to each other.
- absolute location
- the position of a place on the globe.
- equator
- a line that circles the globe halfway between North and South poles
- hemisphere
- the halves the equator divides on the globe2
- latitude
- imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator or parallels
- longtitude
- set of imaginary lines or meridians, that run North and South between the two poles
- prime meridian
- a line that runs through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich England at 0 degrees
- relative location
- where a place is located in relation to other places
- formal reigion
- areas in which a certain characteristic is found throughout the area
- functional reigion
- region that consist of one central place and the surrounding places affected by it