Geography-Maps

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Location and Place: Click for interactive Vocabulary!

**__Perception of place__** describes the way we develop a place that we've never been to by using information we have recieved from books, movies, stories and pictures.

**__Absolute Location__** = accurate location, sometimes determined by its exact longitude and latitude points. __**Relative Location**__ = A place in relation to other features around it. example: North Carolina is located North of South Carolina, east of Tennessee, and South of Virginia.

__**Mental Maps**__ are the maps we create in our minds of places that we have been or have heard about, allowing us to envision what they look like. __**Activity Spaces**__ are spaces in which we visit often or daily and are more accurately detailed in our minds.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">All of our __activity spaces__ will include Millbrook High School because <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">we come here everyday.

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