Term | Definition |
1.Geography | 1.The study of the earth'surface and the process that shape it, the connections between places, and the complex relationship between people and their invoroments |
2.GIS | 2.A geographic information system, which uses computer technology to collect and analyze data about |
3.absolute location | 3.The position on the earth in which a place can be found |
4.hemisphere | 4.A half of the earth;equator divides the north and southern hemispheres; the prime meridian divides the |
5.relative location | 5.The position of a place in relation to another place |
6.character of a place | 6.The physical and human characteristics that help to distinguish a place from other places |
7.precipitation | 7.viewpoint that is influenced by their own culture |
8.formal region | 8.Formal Region A group of places that have similar
attributes for example a political region |
9.functional region | 9.Functional Region A group of places connected by movement
for example the region drained by the Amazon River its tributaries |
10.perceptual region | 10.Perceptual Region a group of places that is defined by people’s feelings and attitudes |
11. Core | The Earth's center consisting of very hot metal |
12.mantle | A thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the earth crust that surrounds the earth`s core, |
13.Crust | the solid rocky,surface layer of the earth. |
14. lithosphere | The surface features of the earth, including soil,rocks,and land forms. |
15.atmosphere | the layer of gases,water vapor,and other substances above the earth. |
16. hydrosphere | the water contained in oceans,lakes,rivers and under graund |
17.biosphere | the world of plants, and animals,and others living things in the earth, land and water. |
18.continent | any of the seven landmasses of the earth`s surface,Africa,Antarctica,Asia,Australia,Europe,North America,\and south America |
19.relief | the differences in elevation,or height,of the land forms any particular Area. |
20.plate tectonics | a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle. |
21 continental drift theory | the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time |
22.ring of fire | A ring of volcanic mountains surrounding the pacific ocean |
23.whetering | the chemical or mechanical process by which the rock is gradually broken down, eventually becoming soil |
24.mechanical whethering | the actual breaking up or physical weakening of rock by forces such as ice |
25.chemical whethering | the process by which the actual chemical structure of rock is changed,usually when of water carbon dioxide cause breakdown of the rock |
26.acid rain | rain whose high concentration chemicals,usually from industrial pollution,pollutes water,kills plant and animal life,and eats away at the surface of stone and rocks; a form of chemical weathering, |
27.erosion | the movement of weathered materials, including gravel,soil, and sand,usually. |
28.sediment | particles of soil and rock carried and deposited by water,wind,or ice |
29.loess | fine-grained mineral-rich loam,dust,or silt deposited by the wind |
30.glacier | a huge,slow moving mass of snow and ice, |
31.moraine | a ridge like a mass of rock,gravel,sand and clay carried and deposited by a glacier |