imaginary lines
different types of geography
Vocabulary
100

Also known as parallels 

What are lines of latitude?

100

is the study of where and how people live? 

What is human geography?

100

How happy or content people are with their lives

What is the quality of life? 

200

Each degree of latitude is separated into these smaller divisions.

What are minutes?

200

looks at how people earn a living 

What is economic geography?

200

These are natural features formed by rivers, sea, ice and volcanoes

what are landforms? 

300

lies 23.5 degrees North of the equator

What is the tropic of cancer?

300

Is the study of the earth's natural features. It is about the land, the seas and the atmosphere around us. 

What is physical geography? 

300

are natural features formed by rivers

What are landforms?

400

lies at 66.5 degrees north of the equator

What is the artic circle? 

400

looks at the distribution of people over the earth's surface.

What is population geography? 

400

This is how happy, or content people are with their lives and the environment they live. 

What is quality of life? 

500

the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth

What is the Prime meridian? 

500

Is a combination of the physical environment of climate, landforms, soils and vegetation, and the human environment which includes settlements and economic activities. 

What is environmental geography?

500

one of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator or by a meridian

What is a hemisphere