Geography Test
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- Weather
- condition of atmosphere in one place during a limited period of time
- Climate
- Weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time
- Subduction
- heavier sea plate dives beneath the lighter continental plate
- Cartographer
- involves with studying and making maps
- Continental Drift
- continents were once joined & slowly drifted apart
- Ecosystem
- Community of plants & animals that depend on one another
- earth's layers
- 1. core 2. mantle 3. crust
- Erosion
- wearing away of earth's surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water
- Longitude
- vertical lines of east and west
- Functional Region
- Central PLace & surrounding area linked to it
- Equator
- Line separating earth's hemispheres
- hemisphere
- Equator & prime meridian. Northern & Southern
- precipitation
- rain, snow, or sleet, depending on the air temperature and wind conditions
- Latitude
- horizontal lines of the poles
- Formal Region
- Uniform
- Prime Meridian
- line of longitude; splits east & west
- Relative location
- locate a place in relation to other places
- Evaporation
- changing of liquid water into vapor, or gas
- Perceptual Region
- Popular feelings & images rather than objective data
- Absolute Location
- Exact spot at which the place is found on the globe
- Region
- areas united by specific factors product produced there
- PLate Tectonics
- create earth's physical features