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Mapping our world

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    definitions of vocabulary related to mapping our world and geography
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  • the scientific study of matter and objects outside of Earth’s atomosphere
    ASTRONOMY
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  • the name or description of a place where someone or something is located
    ADDRESS
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  • the amount of space between a given set of places or things
    DISTANCE
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  • numbers used to indicate the location of a point in space
    COORDINATES
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  • The imaginary line going right around the middle of Earth is called the equator or distance?
    the equator
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  • the planet that we live on
    EARTH
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  • the distance, either north or south, from the equator, measured in degrees
    LATITUDE
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  • specialists in the scientific study of the Earth’s surface and its features
    GEOGRAPHERS
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  • the distance, either east or west, from the fixed imaginary line that runs north to south passing through Greenwich, England, measured in degrees
    LONGITUDE
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  • a particular place e.g. your _________ is where you are on Earth.
    LOCATION
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  • acts of seeing or noticing how things are
    OBSERVATIONS
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  • a realistic graphic representation of an area
    A MAP
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  • something shaped like a ball
    SPHERE
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  • a community of people that is larger than a village but smaller than a city
    TOWN
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