mrs.randall 6th grd.s.s. Flashcards
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Absolute location
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Exact spot were a place is found
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Geography
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Study of the earth and it’s people
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Relative location
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Description of where a place is in relation to the features around it
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Environment
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Natural surroundings of people
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Decade
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A period of ten years
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Century
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A period of one hundred years
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Millennium
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A period of one thousand years
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Global Positioning System
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Group of satalights that uses radio signals to determine the exact location of places on earth
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Geographic information systems
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Combination of computer hardware and software used to gather, store, and analyze geographic information and then display it on a screen
