Geography Vocab 1
This map shows the patterns in climate and weather
What is climate map?
Half of the earth
What is a hemisphere?
Imaginary line that circles Earth from east to west.
The central line of longitude
What is the prime meridian?
Movement of people from place to place
What is migration?
Study of populations
What is demographics?
Number of years an average person can expect to live
What is life expectancy?
Imaginary line that circles Earth from north to south
What is longitude?
This map shows information about landforms and bodies of water
What is a physical map?
A measure of how many people live within a set land area, like a square mile or square kilometer
What is population density?
This map shows information on a particular subject, like voting patterns, sites of military conflicts or population patterns
What is thematic map?
What is a physical map?
The central line of latitude
What is the equator?
A measurement of how many people live within a set land area, like a square mile or square kilometer
What is population density?
A common map projection that distorts scale far from the equator
What is the Mercator projection?
Spread of ideas and practices from place to place
What is cultural diffusion?
The study of Earth and its landforms, bodies of water, and physical systems
What is physical geography?
The way in which the round Earth is transferred to a flat map
What is map projection?
Number of people in a population who die each year out of 1,000
What is death rate?
What is a scale?
A geographic model showing typical patterns of urban land use
What is a concentric zone model?
A geographic model tracing patterns of population growth
What is a demographic transition model?
A geographic model showing populations by age bands and gender
What is a population pyramid?
The study of how people interact with broad regional systems
What is human geography?
Measure of the atmospheric conditions in a place a certain time, such as temperature, wind and precipitation
What is weather?