Vocabulary
Imaginary lines that run east and west on a map.
What is lines of latitude?
The study of the earths physical features.
What is physical geography?
They are 2 types of locations that geographers use as reference points.
What is absolute and relative location?
A triangular area of land formed by deposits at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Imaginary lines that run north and south on a map.
What is longitude?
The exact spot at which a place is found on the globe.
What is absolute location?
They make maps and global representations.
What is cartographers?
Enormous moving pieces of earth in the lithosphere.
What is techtonic plates?
The study of human activities.
What is Human Geography?
Area united by specific characteristics such as a state, nation, or even weather.
What is region?
Name the 3 levels of the earth.
What is direct lithosphere, asthenosphere, and mantle?
It divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is equator?
The combination of the surface shape and composition of the landforms and their distribution in a region
What is topography?
Zero degrees longitude is represented by this imaginary line which runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Particular location with physical (a familiar building or landmark) and human (a local language) meaning.
What is place?
Coined by Alfred Wegener of Germany in 1912, this theory said that earth was once a supercontinent and broke apart millions of years ago forming what we see today.
What is continental drift?
The relationship between people and their physical environment
What is human environment interaction?
Two deminsional representations of the earth.
What is maps?
The place where all longitudinal lines meet in the north.
What is the North Pole?
The exchange of people, products, and ideas
What is movement?
An opening in the earth, usually raised, through which gases and lava escape from the earths interior.
What is volcanos?
The physical and chemical processes that change the earths characteristics.
weathering