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Title: EOC EXAM TEST NOTES
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Created: 2009-12-15
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    • Side 3
    • Globe
    • 3D model of the world
    • Map
    • A drawing of the whole, or a section, of the world.
    • Cartographers
    • Mapmakers
    • Hemisphere
    • half of the world
    • latitude
    • the lines measuring distange north to south, but running east to west
    • longitude
    • lines running north to south, but measuring west to east
    • prime meridian
    • 0 degrees longitude
    • Absolute location
    • the location of an area plotted using latitude and longitude
    • Relative location
    • giving mouth directions, or a simple list using landmarks as pointers
    • Ecosystem
    • animals, land, and climate interacting with each other in harmony
    • human-environment interaction
    • where humans take or give something from the environment, having either beneficial or detrimental effects
    • Geographic Information Systems
    • captures, stores, analyzes, displays, manages, and presents data taken from the area around it
    • Physical Geography
    • The land, sea, air, and climate of earth
    • Geography
    • The study of earth's surface
    • Population density map
    • A map in which it shows the areas where the population is the most, or least dense.
    • Cultural Geography
    • The study of the culture of certain areas of the earth.
    • Equator
    • the 0 degree mark of latitude
    • atmosphere
    • the outer layer of the earth, the air
    • asteroids
    • large, chunks of space rock
    • comets
    • large chunks of space ice
    • meteoroids
    • large chunks of rock that have enterend the earth's atmosphere
    • isthmus
    • body of water surrounded by 3 sides
    • peninsula
    • body of land surrounded on 3 sides
    • Mount Everst
    • worlds highest mountains
    • Dead Sea
    • Worlds most buoyant body of water
    • Mariana Trench
    • Worlds Deepest Trench
    • Core
    • The center of the earth