National History Day? It's not exactly a geography term, but it is a national contest where you study a topic based on the theme of this year. This year it is taking a stand in history. It requires a lot of work, so sorry if this didn't help you.
Converting mined land to its future valuable use - not a process of burying wastes, smoothing out the landscape and applying a green mantle of relatively valueless vegetation.
I believe absolute location is when you give an exant location of where you are and a relative location is just and area your in.
FOR EXAMPLE:
absolute location: I live on South West baker Street at 3410.
relative location: I live in Miami, Florida