Definition | Word |
Point of view based on a person's experience and personal understanding | perspective |
Point of view based on looking at where something is and why it is there | spatial perspective |
The study of the Earth's physical and cultural features | geography |
An area that contains a city | urban |
An area of open land that is often used for farming | rural |
The exact spot on Earth where something is found, often stated in latitude and longitude | absolute location |
The position of a place in relation to another place | relative location |
Physical and human features of a specific location | place |
Area of Earth's surface with one or more shared characteristics | region |
People and ideas moving from place to place | movement |
The movement of ideas or behaviors from one cultural region to another | diffusion |
Relationship between people and the environment | human-environment interaction |
The study of people, past or present | human geography |
The study of Earth's natural landscape and physical systems, including the atmospere | physical geography |
The art and science of mapmaking | cartography |
The field of forecasting and reposrting rainfall, temperatures, and other atmoshereic conditions | meteorology |
The field of tracking Earth'slarger atmoshereic systems | climatology |