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The geographer world
Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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The world in spacial terms | Location is important because it gives you a sense of awareness in where you live. |
Places | Location and characteristics. |
Region | United places by 1 or more common characteristic. |
Physical Systems | Shape of the Earths surface. |
Human Systems | How people have shaped our world. |
Enviroment and society | How actions have affected the enviroment. |
Uses of Geography | Using geography to understand things. |
Absolute location | the precise point where a place is located on Earth. |
Distortion | A change in shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map. |
Relative Location | Where a place is located in relation to another place. |
Basin | A bowl shaped depression, or hollow, in the Earth's surface. |
Bay | Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline; generally smaller than a gulf. |
Canyon | A deep and narrow valley with steep walls. |
Delta | A triangle shaped deposit of sand and sediment that occure where a river flows into an ocean. |
Gulf | A large inlet of the sea that cuts into land; generally larger and more deeply intended than a bay. |
Island | A land area smaller than a continent, that is surrounded by water. |
Isthumus | A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land masses. |
Lake | A sizeable inland body of water. |
Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains. |
Peninsula | A long, narrow stretch of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides. |
Plain | An area of level land, usually at a low elevation and often covered with grasses. |
Plateau | A raised area of land such as a hill or mountain, with a flat top. |
River | A large natural stream of water that runs through the land. |
Strait | A narrow stretch of water that runs through the land. |
Tributary | A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river. |
Volcano | A mountain created as a liquid rock or ash errupts from inside the earth. |
Physical Features | The names, locations, and shapes of landforms and bodies of water. |
Climate Zones | Earth's climate zones. |
Vegetation Zones | Where plants will grow by dividing the world into these zones. |
Population density | Population density or how crowded it is. |
Economic Activity | Land use which is how people use their land to meet their needs. |
Latitude | >>>>> |
Longtitude | ^^^ |