Geography Chapter 1 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. System using radio signals to determine the exact location of places on Earth
  2. 6. 1,000 years
  3. 8. an imaginary line that passes through the center of Earth from the North pole to the South pole
  4. 9. Natural surroundings
  5. 11. When day and night are identical, or equal in length in both hemispheres
  6. 12. The study of the Earth and its people
  7. 13. the layer of oxygen and gasses that surround Earth
  8. 15. spins
  9. 17. Computer hardware and software that gather, store, and analyze geographic information and then display it on a screen
  10. 18. a complete circuit
  11. 19. The day with the most hours of sunlight
  12. 20. 10 years
Down
  1. 1. Earth, 7 other planets, and thousands of of smaller bodies revolve around the sun
  2. 2. a path a planet follows around the sun
  3. 4. The exact spot on Earth where a geographic feature is
  4. 5. Describes where that feature is in relation to the features around it
  5. 7. 100 years
  6. 10. a year that contains one of these extra days
  7. 14. The day with the fewest hours of sunlight
  8. 16. The low latitude areas near the equator between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn