Geography vocab review

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Across
  1. 2. a part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas
  2. 5. lines that run east and west but that measure north and south of the equator
  3. 6. all the human and physical features that make a place unique
  4. 9. a flat drawing of the earth's surface
  5. 10. the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create
  6. 13. how and why people and things move
  7. 14. a change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a flat map
  8. 15. units of measurement that locate lines of latitude and longitude
  9. 17. imaginary lines that circle Earth in east-west and north-south directions
  10. 21. the study of the people, communities, and landscapes
  11. 24. northern and southern or eastern and western halves of the globe
  12. 25. zero degrees latitude
  13. 26. how people affect their environment and how their environment affects them
Down
  1. 1. a general description of where a place is location often expressed in relation to something else
  2. 3. a system that transmits information from satellites to Earth, giving the exact location of a given object on our planet
  3. 4. the study of weather and what causes it
  4. 7. a system that combines and provides geographic information from many different sources
  5. 8. lines that run north and south but that measure degrees east or west of the prime meridian
  6. 10. a spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet
  7. 11. the study of the world's landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, and plants
  8. 12. the science of making maps
  9. 16. a field that studies people and the relationships among them
  10. 18. Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates
  11. 19. where something is- relative and absolute
  12. 20. zero degrees longitude
  13. 22. an area's landscape including it's land, climate and people
  14. 23. ways that our round planet can be shown on a flat map