Categories
Broadly speaking the two categories can geography be broken into.
What is Physical and Human Geography?
Invisible lines, or parallels, that run east-west on a map.
What is lines of latitude?
Refers to the temperature, precipitation, and wind during short periods of time in local regions.
What is weather?
A government where people govern themselves with selected representatives.
What is a republic?
The theory that the earth's crust is composed of several large plates that slowly slide over the earths mantle, carrying the continents with them.
What is plate tectonics?
The study and production of maps, political boundaries, and latitudinal and longitudinal lines.
What is cartography?
The longest line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
Refers to the weather patterns over large regions over longer periods of time.
What is climate?
The study of human population, including its increases, decreases and migrations.
What is demographics?
What are faults?
The study of the features of the earths surface.
What is topography?
Maps often have these to help read them correctly.
What is legends and scales?
These, sometimes called cyclones, are rotating storm systems that produce high winds and heavy rainfall. They form over the ocean.
What are hurricanes?
A system that allows individuals to make economic decisions and includes free-markets or market economies.
What is Capitalism?
This "ology" is the study of the earth's core and physical structures.
What is Geology?
One of the four categories of human geography that includes industry, infrastructure, natural resources, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
What is Economic Geography?
Lines, or meridians, that run north and south and measure distances east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
Seasonal winds in the Indian ocean that usually bring copious amounts of rain.
What are Monsoons?
This is the language family that represents the most speakers which includes the Romance, Slavic, Iranian, and Germanic branches.
What is Indo-European?
What is relative location?
A component of human geography that includes religion, language, music, literature, cuisine, etc.
What is culture?
The line that circles the globe at 00 through Greenwich, England, and divides the earth into the Western and Eastern Hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A powerful rotating column of air, usually formed at the base of a thunderstorm and extending to the surface of the earth.
What is a tornado?
A system that relies on its government to make economic decisions creation.
What is planned or central economies?
These locations are used in both absolute and relative locations and include the terms North, South, East and West.
What are cardinal directions?