Geography
what is geography?
geography is the study of patterns on the earth's surface.
What is latitude?
Lines showing how north or how south something is.
What are the two types of location?
Relative and exact.
What are the five themes of geography?
Location,place,interaction,movement,region.
how many oceans are there?
5
what is longitude?
Lines showing how east or west something is.
What is relative location?
general area like town or city.
what is exact location?
The exact spot that you are standing in.
How many continents are there?
7
what is the equator?
The middle of the earth 0 south 0 north.
What is movement?
How goods and ideas travel from place to place. (example:trucks or phones.)
What is place?
Place is a natural or man made area like a mountain or a building.
What are the oceans names?
Indian,Arctic,Pacific,Atlantic, and Southern.
What is the prime meridian?
The middle of the earth 0 east t 0 west.
What is interaction?
How people and the environment interact with each other. (example:earthquakes or pollution.)
What are the seven continents?
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
What is the name of where the equator and the prime meridian meet.
Null island.
What is region?
Region is specific features of a area. (example:snow belt is a region where it commonly has heavy snowfall.)