unit one world geography
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- Population density
- The average number of people in a square mile/kilometer
- Absolute location
- The exact spot at which a place is found on the globe.
- Mantle
- Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure...dense hot rock.
- Smog
- Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation
- Current
- Cold or warm stream of saltwater that flows in oceans
- Hydrosphere
- The bodies of water that make up part of our earth
- Fault
- Cracks in the crust from sliding plates
- Market economy
- An economic system based on free enterprise
- Climate
- weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
- Linguists
- People that help with languages
- Culture
- Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
- Hemisphere
- Two halves
- Command economy
- An economic system in which economic decisions
- Cartography
- Studying and making maps
- Grid System
- Lines of latitude and longitude cross one another to form a pattern
- Magma
- Molten rock
- Migration
- The movement of people from place to place
- Atmosphere
- The air we breathe