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Geography Unit 1 Lesson 1

Geography
Across
half of the globe (e.g., the half that is north of the Equator is the Northern ?; the half that is south of the equator is the Southern ?
a line of latitude that is north of the Equator, but closer to the Equator than to the North Pole; also called the 23.5 degree north latitude line
natural or human-made links between two places (e.g., a river, a highway)
study of the Earth's land, air, and water (including mountains and soils, weather and climate, rivers, lakes, and oceans)
what people use to protect a place from attacks by enemies
refers to the whole world; see spatial scale
Down
a line of latitude that is south of the Equator, but closer to the Equator than to the South Pole; also called the 23.5 degree south latitude line
study of where people have decided to live and what they have chosen to build and do in different parts of the the Earth.
water that people can use to drink or to raise plants and animals
a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
a group of places that are alike in some way AND also are near each other
characteristics or features in a particular place (e.g., amount of rainfall or number of trees)
a set of lines that geographers draw on the earth because they want to describe locations in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.
a line of latitude that is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole; also called the zero(0) degree latitude line