click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
geography-Talia
Geography Vocabulary
Word | Definition |
---|---|
Absolute Location | Specific, exact point of reference address |
Relative | Accurate but very general |
Perspective | personal view of the world |
Proxmity | nearness in space, time or relationship |
Distance | An amount of space between two things or people |
Direction | A course along which someone or something moves |
Bearing | A person's way of standing or moving |
Coordinates | each of a group of numbers used to indicate the postion of a point, line or plane |
Vector | Direct (an aircraft in flight) to a desired point |
Equator | 0 degrees latitude |
Parallel | lines of latitude |
Prime Meridian | Imaginary lines that divides the earth into eastern and western halves. 0 degrees line longitude |
Meridian | lines of longitude |
Hemisphere | Any half of the earth |
Tropic Of Cancer | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator |
Tropic Of Capricorn | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator |
Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, West |
Intermediate points | Northeast, Southeast, East-west |
Location | A particular place or position |
Place | A particular position or place |
Movement | an act of changing physical location or position or of having this change |
Human Environmental Interaction | Looks at the relationships between people and environment |
Region | Large area that is different from the areas around it. A region can be defined by a single feature or by several features, either natural or cultural |
Latitude | imaginary lines joining points or earth's surface that are all of equal distance north or south of the equator |
Longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian, as measured in degrees of a circle |
International dateline | an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following the 180th meridian (180 degrees longitude) |
Tropic Zone | the part of the earths surface between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn |
Environment | Everything that surrounds, both natural and/or man-made |
Ecology | A unique environment with unique characteristics |
Adaptation | living things learn to live in their unique environment/ ecosystems |
Climate | Average weather in a region over a long period of time |
Compass rose | a circle showing the principal of directions printed on a map or chart |
Legend/key | Tells you about specific icons or colors on a game or map |
Scale | the ratio between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on earth |
equinox | the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earths equator making night and day equal all around the world |
Solstice | either of the two times of the year the sun is at its greatest from the equator |
Poles | North and south poles |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GIS | Georgraphic Information System is a system of hardware and software used for storage and mapping |