Geography Vocabulary from Chapter 1 of National Geographic Society Geography: Th
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- GEOGRAPHY
- THE STUDY OF THE EARTH AND ITS LAND, WATER, AND PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE
- ABSOLUTE LOCATION
- THE EXACT POSITION OF A PLACE ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE
- HEMISPHERE
- ONE-HALF OF THE GLOBE
- LATITUDE
- LOCATION NORTH OR SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
- LONGITUDE
- LOCATION EAST OR WEST OF THE PRIME MERIDIAN
- GRID SYSTEM
- NETWORK OF IMAGINARY LINES ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE, FORMED BY THE CRISSCROSSING PATTERNS OF THE LINES OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
- RELATIVE LOCATION
- THE POSITION OF A PLACE ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE IN RELATION TO ANOTHER PLACE
- PLACE
- THE TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT DISTINGUISH ONE PLACE FROM ANOTHER
- ENVIRONMENT
- NATURAL SURROUNDINGS
- MOVEMENT
- DESCRIBES HOW PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT PLACES INTERACT
- REGION
- DEFINING THE PARTS OF THE EARTH THAT SHARE COMMON CHARACTERISITICS
- GALAXY
- HUGE SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSE INCLUDING MILLIONS OF STARS
- SOLAR SYSTEM
- GROUP OF PLANETS AND OTHER BODIES THAT REVOLVE AROUND THE SUN
- ORBIT
- ELLIPTICAL PATH THAT A PLANET FOLLOWS IN REVOLVING AROUND THE SUN
- REVOLUTION
- ONE COMPLETE TRIP AROUND THE SUN
- AXIS
- THE HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL LINE OF MEASUREMENT ON A GRAPH
- EQUINOX
- DAY IN MARCH AND SEPTEMBER WHEN THE SUN'S RAYS ARE DIRECTLY OVERHEAD AT THE EQUATOR, MAKING DAY AND NIGHT OF EQUAL LENGTH
- LANDFORM
- INDIVIDUAL FEATURES
- CORE
- CENTRAL LAYER OF THE EARTH COMPOSED OF HOT IRON AND NICKEL
- MANTLE
- MIDDLE LAYER OF THE EARTH, COMPOSED OF THICK HOT ROCK
- CRUST
- OUTER LAYER OF THE EARTH
- MAGMA
- MELTED ROCK WITHIN THE EARTH'S MANTLE
- CONTINENT
- ONE OF THE MAJOR LAND AREAS OF THE EARTH
- PLATE TECTONICS
- THEORY IN GEOLOGY THAT THE EARTH'S CRUST IS MADE UP OF HUGE, MOVING PLATES OF ROCK
- FAULT
- CRACK IN THER ROCKS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST ALONG WHICH MOVEMENT OCCURS
- EARTHQUAKE
- VIOLENT JOLTING OR SHAKING OF THE EARTH CAUSED BY MOVEMENT OF ROCKS ALONG A FAULT
- TSUNAMI
- HUGE SEA WAVE CAUSED BY AN EARTHQUAKE ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
- WEATHERING
- PROCESS BY WHICH SURFACE ROCKS ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO SMALLER PIECES BY WATER, CHEMICALS, OR FROST
- EROSION
- WEARING AWAY OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE, MAINLY BY WATER, WIND, OR ICE
- PLATEAU
- FLAT LANDFORM WHOSE SURFACE IS RAISED ABOVE THE SURROUNDING LAND, WITH A STEEP CLIFF ON ONE SIDE
- ISTHMUS
- NARROW PIECE OF LAND CONNECTING TWO LARGER PIECES OF LAND
- PENINSULA
- PIECE OF LAND SURROUNDED BY WATER ON THREE SIDES
- LEAP YEAR
- YEAR WITH 366 DAYS
- SOLSTICE
- DAY IN JUNE AND DECEMBER THAT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER OR WINTER
- STRAIT
- NARROW BODY OF WATER LYING BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF LAND
- ATMOSPHERE
- THICK CUSHION OF GASES SURROUNDING THE EARTH, MADE UP MAINLY OF THE GASES NITROGEN AND OXYGEN
- WHAT ARE THE 5 THEMES OF GEOGRPAHY?
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LOCATION
PLACE
HUMAN/ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
MOVEMENT
REGION