Term | Definition |
geography | is the study of people places and thing related to eachother |
GIS | a geographic info system, which uses computer technalogy to collect and analyze data about earth |
absolute location | position on earth in which a place can be found |
hemisphere | half of the earth; the equator divides the earth in halfs |
relative locatioon | a position of a place in relation to another place |
character of a place | the physical and human chararistcs that help distinguish aa place from other places. |
perception | a veiwpoint from which ones experiences are veiwed from cultural experiences |
formal region | a group of places that have similiar attributes for example political region |
functional regional | a group of places connected by movement for example a region drained by the amazon and its tributaries |
perceptual region | a group of places defined by its feelings and attributes |
core | center of the earth |
crust | what we live on the thinnest part |
lithosphere | landforms and surface features |
atmosphere | the layer of gasses and substances above the earth |
hydrosphere | the water contained in the earth and on the earth |
biosphere | the earth of plants animals an living things |
relief | differences in elevation in an area |
continent | is the big landforms in the cean... a total of seven |
weathering | is the breakdpwn of rock at the earths service into smaller and smaller pieces |
mechanical weathering | occurs when rock is actually broken or weakened physically |
chemical weathering | alters a rocks chemical makeup by changing its minerals by combining them with new combinations |
axid rain | chemicals polluted in the air combine with water vapor and rain down to earth |
erosion | movement of weathered materials such as gravel soil and sand |
sediment | small partices of soil sand andgravel |
loess | fine grained mineral rich loam dust or silt deposited by the wind |
glacier | a huge slow moving mass of snow and ice |
moraine | a ridgelike mass of of rock gravel sand and claye carried and deposited by a glacier |