World Geography-Semester 1 Final
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- absolute location
- the exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found
- relative location
- describes a place in relation to other places around it
- equator
- imaginary line that circles the globe
- prime meridian
- imaginary line at zero meridian used to mesure longitude east and west
- latitude lines
- run parallel to the equator
- core
- earth's center, made of iron, nickel; inner core is solid and outer core is liquid
- lava
- magma that has reached the earth's system
- lithosphere
- the solid rock portion of the earth's surface
- Richter scale
- way to measure information collected by seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake
- epicenter
- point where an earthquake began
- chemical weathering
- the process that changes rock into a new substance through interactions among elements in the air or water and the minerals in the rock
- delta
- a fan-like landform made of deposited sediment, left by a river that slows as it enters the ocean
- megalopolis
- a region where several large cities and surrounding areas grow together
- free enterprise system
- an economic system where private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and buisnesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government
- service industry
- any kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product
- Crusades
- series of wars launched by Eruopean Christians in 1096 to capture the Holy Land (Palestine) from Muslims
- age of exploration
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- balkanization
- the process of breaking up a region into small, mutually hostile units
- longitude lines
- a set of imaginary lines that go around over the earth's poles, dividing it east and west
- heimsphere
- each half of the globe
- globe
- a three-dimensional representation of the earth
- map projection
- a way of mapping the earth's surface that reduces distortion caused by converting three dimensions into two dimensions
- topographic map
- a general reference map; a representation of natural and man-made features on the earth
- mantle
- a rock layer about 1,800 miles thick that is between the earth's crust and the earth's core
- magma
- the molten rock material formed when solid rock in the earth's mantle or crust melts
- seismograph
- a device that meausres the size of the waves created by an eqathquake
- Ring of Fire
- the chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacfic Rim
- mechanical weathering
- natural processes that break rock into smaller pieces
- loess
- wind-blown silt and clay sediment that produces very fertile soil