Physical or Human Geography
Climate
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is physical geography?
An area of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land, larger than a bay.
What is a Gulf?
This isn’t an exact location, it’s describing a location using cardinal directions.
what is Relative Location
Imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North and South poles. Divides the globe into the North and South hemispheres. it is at 0 Degrees Latitude
What is the Equator
Rocky outer layer of Earth...includes the sea floor.
what is the Lithosphere
The Nature-worship of prehistoric peoples.
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is human geography?
Central and South America are connected by this narrow landform in Panama that is great for building canals.
What is an Isthmus?
The moving of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another
What is Movement?
This is the line that separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. It is at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian
When the sun’s rays are furthest from the equator...happens June 21 (beginning of summer) and December 21 (beginning of winter).
What is the Solstice?
Population of China
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is human geography?
An area of low-lying wetland.
What is A Marsh?
An area of land that has common/shared features
what is Region
A picture on a map that shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
What is a compass rose
❖One complete spin of the earth on its axis. 24 hours. Even though it looks like the sun is moving in the sky...we are actually the ones moving!
what is Rotation
The diamond mines of South Africa.
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is Human Geography?
(The diamond deposits were put there by Nature, but the mines were made by people.)
A point of land projecting into a body of water.
What is a Cape?
How do humans impact the environment there and how does the environment impact the humans living there?
What is Human-Environment Interaction
What is another name for a map key?
Legend
All the living things on Earth (plants and animals) Each part impacts the other.
What is the Biosphere?
The Amazon River
Physical Geography or Human Geography?
What is physical geography?
A chain of islands close to each other ________.
What is an archipelago?
What’s it like there? this includes Political (government), human (what the people are like) and physical (natural) characteristics.
What is Place
Half of the Earth...there are four of them (Northern above equator, Southern below equator, Eastern east of Prime Meridian, Western west of Prime Meridian).
What is hemispheres
Circulation of water from the Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back. The sun drives this cycle.
what is the Water Cycle.