Celebrating People and Places Chap 3 Vocabulary

The human, physical, and environmental characteristics of a location that distinguish it from any other is

• latitude

• Place

• Longitude

• Urbanization

An imaginary line around Earth that is an equal distance from the North and South poles, marking the division between the northern and southern hemispheres is the

• longitude

• latitude

• deforestation

• equator

Distance, north or south, from the equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

Distance, east or west, from the prime meridian

• Latitude

• Longitude

The 24 divisions of Earths surface that are used to determine the local time

• Equator

• International date line

• Time zones

• place

The time as measured on the prime meridian

• Time zones

• International Date Line

• Universal Time

• Longitude

The line on earth's surface that is internationally agreed upon as the place where each new calendar day begins

• International Date Line

• Universal Time

• Time Zones

• Place

The destruction of a forest

• Urbanization

• Deforestation

• Longitude

• Latutude

The movement of people from rural to urban areas; the rapid growth of cities or the taking on of urban characteristics

• Place

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Universal Time