Vocabulary Terms
Classes of Geography
Sostice or Equinox?
On the Globe (world)
MISC.
100
These intersecting lines form 90 degree, or right angles.
What is Perpendicular.
100
What is the study of the physical features of the earth and the influence that these features have on man?
What is Physical Geography.
100
The equator is farthest from the sun.
What is Solstice.
100
What is a straight line about which an object turns?
What is an axis.
100
How often does a leap year occur?
What is every four years.
200
What is circumference?
What is the distance around an object.
200
What is the study of the size and measurement of the earth?
What is Mathematical Geography.
200
The north and south poles are at equal distances from the sun.
What is Equinox.
200
What lies 23 1/2 degrees north of the equator?
What is the Tropic of Cancer.
200
What is the lowest point below sea level?
What is the Marianas Trench.
300
What is Meteorology the study of?
What is the earth's atmosphere.
300
What is the study of society's activities, beliefs, institutions, and behavioral patterns?
What is Cultural Geography.
300
June 21st
What is Solstice
300
Where is the Arctic Circle located?
What is 23 1/2 degrees south of the North Pole.
300
What are the three main parts of the atmosphere?
What are the Ionosphere, the Stratosphere, and the Troposphere.
400
What is average weather?
What is climate
400
What is the study of city growth and decline?
What is Urban Geography.
400
December 21st
What is Solstice
400
What is 24,902 miles?
What is the circumference around the equator.
400
What are temperature, pressure, wind and moisture?
What are the four elements of climate.
500
What is Erosion?
What is weathering away.
500
Economic Geography is the study of agricultural, industrial and ______________ activities of man on earth.
What is commercial.
500
September 23 and March 21.
What is Equinox.
500
Where is the Tropic of Capricorn located?
What is 23 1/2 degrees south of the equator.
500
Give the two kinds of physical changes (weathering) that occur on the earth's surface.
What are land erosion and water erosion.
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