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Geo. Terms
Geography Terms ( Know Defintion)
Term | Definition |
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Cartographer | MapMaker |
Meteorologist | someone who studies the weather and forecating |
Suq | marketplace |
Shah | means king |
Plo | when the palestinians wanted to take control over Israel |
Cardinal Directions | North,South,East,West |
Tsunami | a large wave caused by tectonic activity |
Intermediate Directions | North East , North West,South East,South West |
Furrow | a narrow trench made by a plow |
Escarpment | a steep slope capped by a plateau |
Bedouins | a migrating herder of southwest Asia |
Securalism | indifference to religion |
Animism | the belief that living things have spirits |
Muslim | a person that follows the Islamic belief |
Geography | the sudy of the Earth and the people that live on it |
Peninsula | a land form surrounded by water on 3 sides |
Mosque | an Islamic place of worship |
Minaret | the tower of a mosque |
Theocracy | a country ruled by religious belief |
Bioshpere | the parts of Earth in which all of the plants and animals exist |
Atmosphere | the layer of gasses that surround our Earth |
Hydroshere | makes up all of the Earth's water |
Lithosphere | the land on Earth that makes up the continent and the ocean floor |
Archipelago | a group of many islands |