Geography Flashcards from 9/12/06
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- ocean
- four large bodies of salt water that cover the earth
- continent
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7 land masses that are made up
of different states or countries - hemisphere
- 4 different ways of cutting the world in half
- Cardinal directions
- the major directions -- north,south,east,and west
- Indermediate directions
- northwest,northeast,southwest,southeast
- Compass rose
- a tool that shows the directions
- Longitude/Meridans
- Invisible lines that run north and south
- Prime Meridan
- an invisible longitude line that is at 0º
- Latitude/Parallels
- Invisible lines that run east and west
- Equater
- an invisible Latitude line that is at 0º
- Absolute location
- An exact location on earth
- Geography
- the study of earth and the people on it