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9. water frozen as snow and ice
10. a description of location expressed as an angle north or south of the equator.
11. occurs on about December 21 - the North Pole is oriented most directly away from the Sun
12. The gaseous envelope of air that surrounds Earth
13. east–west location on Earth
14. an imaginary plane passing through Earth halfway between the poles and perpendicular to the axis of rotation
15. the rocks of Earth’s crust as well as the unconsolidated particles of mineral matter that overlie the solid bedrock

1. occurs on or about June 21 - North Pole is oriented most directly toward the Sun
2. sometimes called environmental geography
3. Any plane that is passed through the center of a sphere bisects that sphere
4. on approximately March 20 - the vertical rays of the Sun strike the equator.
5. all the parts of Earth where living organisms can exist
6. on about September 22 -the vertical rays of the Sun strike the equator.
7. comprises water in all its forms
8. includes such subfields as cultural geography, economic geography, political geography, and urban geography.