World Geography - Semester Review
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- Geography
- is the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they related to each other.
- GIS
- geographic information system - uses technology to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display data about the earth's surface in order to solve geographic problems
- absolute location
- its position on the globe
- hemispheres
- how the earth is divided in halves
- relative location
- its relation compared to other places
- character of a place
- consists of the place's physical characteristics and human characteristics
- formal regions
- areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area
- functional regions
- consists of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it
- perceptual regions
- defined by people's feelings and attitudes about areas
- core
- center of the earth consists of very hot metal, mainly iron mixed with some nickle
- mantle
- a thick layer of rock around the core
- crust
- the rocky surface layer, very thin
- lithosphere
- made up of soil, rocks, land-forms, and other surface features
- atmosphere
- layer of air, water, and other substances above the surface
- hydrosphere
- consists of water in oceans, lakes, and rivers even under the ground
- biosphere
- is the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet