VOCAB
The exact location of a point on Earth's surface
What is Absolute Location?
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
What is Movement, Regions, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?
Fills the spaces between soil particles and fractured rock beneath the Earth's surface?
What is Groundwater?
A piece of land surrounded by water
What is Island?
A climate pattern that occurs when the ocean surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms above average
What is El Nino?
0 degrees longitude
What is Prime Meridian?
A _____ can have physical or human characteristics?
What is Place?
The distance over water that wind blows in a single direction
What is Fetch?
A flat, elevated landform that rises above the surrounding area on at least one side
What is Plateau?
Two major factors defining climate
What is Temperature and Precipitation?
Divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is Equator?
Where a place is in relation to other places
What is Relative Location?
Waves are caused by the ____, tides are caused by the ____.
What is wind? What is moon?
Land surrounded by water on three sides
What is Peninsula?
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
A geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth
What is Longitude?
Can be formal, functional, or perceptual
What is Region?
A large body of water surrounded by land
What is Lake?
A series of hills or mountains
What is Mountain Range?
As ________ increases, temperature and air pressure decreases
What is Altitude?
A method of representing the Earth's curved surface on a flat surface
What is Map Projection?
What three ways do we interact with our environment?
What is adapt, modify, and depend?
High-energy waves that are characterized by their steepness, short wavelength, and strong backwash
What is Destructive Waves?
A relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
What is Isthmus?
Five general climate regions
What is Tropical, Dry, Mid-Latitude, High-Latitude, and Highlands