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Vocabulary 1.1
Vocabulary 1.2
5 themes of Geography
Oceans and Continents
Latitude and Longitude
100
study of mapmaking or maps.
What is Cartography?
100
Lines that are drawn from east-west direction, aka Parallels.
What is Latitude?
100
covers the ways people and environments interrelate with and effect each other such highways or roads.
What is Human-Environmental interaction?
100
the biggest ocean in the world and also known as the "calmest"
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
a collection of maps in one book
What is an Atlas?
200
the way we look at things or from one's point of view.
What is Perspective?
200
a map that shows landforms.
What is Physical Map?
200
how they form and change, involving functional and formal regions
What is Region?
200
the smallest continent in the world, it is also a country and nation, where the koala bear lives.
What is Australia?
200
patterns of lines on the globe.
What is grid?
300
reflecting human feelings and attitudes.
What is Perceptual Region?
300
an imaginary line drawn from North Pole through Greenwich, England, to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
the meaning of relative and absolute position on earth's surface.
What is Location?
300
the ocean in between europe and north america.
What is Atlantic Ocean?
300
it is when you half the globe using the equator.
What is the north and south hemisphere?
400
places that are linked together and function as unit.
What is a Functional Region?
400
an imaginary line that circles the globe in between earth's south and north pole.
What is the Equator?
400
the distinctive and distinguishing physical and human characteristics of locales
What is Place?
400
this consists of the united states and canada.
What is North America?
400
it is used to measure distances in parallels and meridians.
What is Degrees?
500
one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is Formal Region?
500
lines that are drawn north-south direction aka meridians.
What is Longitude?
500
patterns and change in human spatial interaction on the earth, for example migration or diffusion.
What is Movement?
500
the biggest continent in the world that consist of Russia the Soviet Union as the biggest nation in the world.
What is Asia?
500
when you half the globe by using the prime meridian
What is the east and west hemispheres?