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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| equinox | the time of year when the day and the night are of equal length! |
| solstice | happens twice a year– the winter solstice and the summer solstice. marked by the longest and shortest days. |
| Dr. John Snow | the guy who used maps to figure out the cause of a cholera outbreak in the mid 1800s. he mapped the dead and their water sources, and most of the deaths were near a certain pump. handle to the pump was removed and the outbreak stopped. |
| time zone | a range of longitudes where a common standard time is used. |
| latitude | east and west |
| longitude | north and south |
| equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres! "the earth's belt" |
| prime meridian | the equator's sister. goes through the poles. overall pretty cool gal. |
| mental map | a map in your brain, or the way you see a space in your mind |
| cholera | it's transmitted through food and water and it makes you have really bad poo. it can kill you so watch out. |
| hemisphere | half of the earth– northern, southern, eastern, and western. |
| parallel | longitude– parallel to the equator |
| meridian | latitiude– parallel to the prime meridian! |
| tropic of cancer | area above the equator, very warm |
| tropic of capricorn | chillin below the equator. it's capricorn so it's cold like january. eleni that doesn't make any sense. it's chillin. |
| pangaea | super continent– all of the continents used to be pals. then they drifted apart :/ |
| physical geography | looking at physical features like soil, climate, land formations, etc. |
| human geography | looking at how humans interact with the world around them. agriculture, population, etc. |
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