Term | Definition |
1.Geography | is the study of where people,places,and things are located and how they relate to each other. |
2.GIS | uses computer technology to collect,manipulate, analyze,and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems. |
3.Absolute Location | its position in the globe. |
4.Hemispheres | Halves |
5.Relative Location | its relation compared to other places |
6.character of a place | consists of the place's physical characteristics and human characteristics. |
7.formal regions | are areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area. |
8.functional regions | consist of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it. |
9.perceptual regions | are defined by people's feelings and attitudes about areas. |
10.core | The earth's center, consisting of very hot metal that is dense and solid in the inner core and molten, or liquid, in the outer core |
11.mantle | a thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the earth' crust that surrounds the earth' core. |
12.crust | The solid, rocky, surface layer of the earth. |
13.lithosphere | the surface features of the earth, including soil, rocks, and land forms. |
14.atmosphere | the layer of gases, water vapor, and othe substances above the earth. |
15.hdrosphere | the water contained in oceans, lakes, rives, and under the ground. |
16.biospere | The world of plants, animals, and other living things in earth's land and waters |
17.continents | Any of the seven large landmasses of the earth's surface: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia,Europe, North America, and South America. |
18.relief | the differences in elevation, or height, of the land forms in any particular area. |
19.platetectonics | |
20.continental drift theory | The idea that continents slowly shift their positions due to movement of the tectonic plates on which they ride |
21.ring of fire | |
22.weathering | |
23.mechanical weathering | |
24.chemical weathering | The process by which the actual chemical structure of rock is changed, usually when water and carbon dioxide cause a breakdown of the rock |
25.acid rain | Rain whose high concentration f chemicals, usually from industrial pollution, pollutes water, kills plant and animal life, and eats away at the surface of stone and rock; a form of chemical weathering. |
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