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| a term used in geography that deals with the relative and absolution and spatial position of naterual and human-made phenomenon |
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| a term that describes the factors that make the location of natural and human-made phenomenon |
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| human//environment interaction |
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| the term means all the kinds of interaction a human can do or have in nature |
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| a term that deals with migration, transport, communication, and interaction of naterual and human-made phenomenon across the spatial dimension. |
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| a term that describes an area of earth where some natural or human-made phenomenon display similar traits |
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| is a north-south measurment of position on the earth |
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| is a west-east measurement of position on the earth |
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| is an objects exact location |
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| is the location of something in relation of another place |
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| a line parallel to the equator and connecting all place of the same latitude |
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| a circular arc that meets at the poles and connects all places of the same longitude |
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| the location from which meridians of longitude are measured. |
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| location on the earth that has a latitude of 0 degrees |
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| a long narrow channel of water that flows as a function of gravity |
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| a land mass that projects well above the surroundings |
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| a large, long lasting accumulation of snow and ice that developes on land. |
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| a flat topped hill that rises sharply above the surrounding landscape |
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| a plateau is an important stretch of land. It is any high area of relatively level land |
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| a piece of land that sticks out into a body of water and is surrounded by water on 3 sides. |
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| the topographic ridge that separates drainage basins |
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| the event of something being raised upward |
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| large deposit of alluvial located at the mouth of a stream where it enters a body of standing water |
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| a body of saline water found on the earth's continental surface |
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| the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface. |
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| a narrow channel of the sea joining 2 larger bodies of water |
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| an arm of a sea or ocian pertly enclosed by land; larger than a bay |
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| a smaller branching stream channel that flows into a main stream channel. |
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| a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals. |
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| are a group of mountains that are either souranded by lowlands or separated from other mountains either by passes or rivers |
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| steep sided valley where depth is considerably greater than its width |
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| a strip of land projecting into a body of water |
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| a body of standing water found on the earth's continental land masses |
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| the physical confine of a river, slough, or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks |
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| is one of the 7 large landmasses on earch |
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| a body of sheltered water found in a cresent shaped coastal configuration of land |
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| end of a stream. Point at which a stream enters a lake, sea, or ocean |
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| an area of land with relatively no relief - flat |
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| against the flow of a stream |
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| a narrow strip of land, bordered on 3 sides by water, and connecting 2 larger land masses |
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| a local and well defined elevation of land |
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| a topographic rock structure whose shape is concave downwards |
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