Vocabulary
The study of human activities and how it affects the earth
What is Human Geography
Latitude measures which directions
What is North to South
What is Tropical Climate
Flows through Brazil's rainforest
The Amazon
Coined the term geography
Eratosthenes
Water within the surface of the earth
What is Groundwater
longitude measures what directions
What is East to West
Highest Point in Guyana
What is Mount Roraima
Smallest country
Vatican City
He called his hypothesis continental drift
Alfred Wegener
The cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees
What is West
The imaginary line that runs across the center of the Earth
What is the Equator
The deepest river in Guyana
Largest non-continental island
Greenland
Introduced the theory of the geomorphic cycle
William M. Davis
Of or relating to or happening in a river
What is Fluvial
The imaginary line used to measure longitude
What is Prime Meridian
Guyana's three main geographical zones.
what is the coastal plain, the white sand belt, and the interior highlands.
Deepest Point of the Ocean
Marina's Trench
Promoted the view that the physical environment determines human history and culture
Ellen Churchill Semple
An imaginary circle passing through two poles.
What is Meridian
The system used to determine latitude and longitude
What is grid system
The latitudinal Point Guyana sits between.
what is 1 and 9 N latitude
Five Oceans of the World
Atlantic, Arctic, Antarctic(Southern), Indian, and Pacific
Created one of the most studied works of mapmaking; oversaw the creation of over 70 maps
Al-Idrisi