Georgraphy Intro
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- Prime Meridian
- Russia's main independent TV station
- Geographic Grids
- networks of imaginary lines that help us find and describe places on earth
- Geography
- the study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products
- Human Geography
- concentrates on patterns of human activity and on their relationships with the environment.
- Stewardess
- to keep up or keep going, as an action or process
- Tundra
- a vast, level, treeless plain in the arctic regions. The ground beneath the surface of the tundras is frozen even in summeril
- Peterson
- a type of map projection that depicts the continents' sizes more accurately than Mercator.
- Equator
- an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
- Consumerisum
- concentration on producing and distributing goods for a market which must constantly be enlarged
- GPS
- Geographic Positioning System
- coniferous forests
- forests of trees that bear cones.
- Map Legend
- lists and explains the symbols and colors used on a map
- Physical Geography
- concerned with the locations of such earth features as land, water, and climate; their relationship to one another and to human activities; and the forces that create and change them
- Savannas
- a region of grassland with scattered trees lying between the equatorial forest and the hot deserts in either hemisphere
- Organic Production
- grown or prepared with natural fertilizers or without the use of insecticides and other chemicals: organic food
- deciduous forests
- forests of trees that shed leaves each year
- Biome
- a natural community of plants and animals, its composition being largely controlled by climatic conditions
- Recycle
- to put wastes, garbage, or the like, through a cycle of purification and conversion to useful products
- GIS
- Geographic Information System
- compass
- an instrument for showing directions, consisting of a needle or compass card that points to the north magnetic pole, which is near the North Pole.
- Contour Map
- a map showing heights at regular intervals above sea level by means of contour lines
- Longitude
- distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole).
- Distortion
- a distorting; twisting out of shape
- Pesticides
- any one of various substances used to kill harmful insects (insecticide), fungi (fungicide), vermin, or other living organisms that destroy or inhibit plant growth, carry disease, or are otherwise harmful.
- Tropical Rain Forests
- a woodland of tall trees growing in a region of year-round warmth and abundant rainfall
- Mollweide
- a type of homolographic map projection in which the surface of the earth is represented as an ellipse, with the equator and parallels of latitude as straight lines.
- Mercator
- A Mercator chart represents the meridians and parallels of latitude as straight lines.
- Parellel
- any of the imaginary circles around the earth parallel to the equator, marking degrees of latitude
- Latitude
- distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
- Grasslands
- land with grass on it.
- Projections
- a number of mathematical methods that cartographers use to produce a flat map of the round earth
- Niche
- the ecological "job and address" of a plant or animal in nature.
- Topography
- the surface features of a place or region. The topography of a region includes hills, valleys, streams, lakes, bridges, tunnels, and roads.
- cartography
- the making or study of maps or charts.
- Renewable Resources
- a resource that can be renewed, solar, wind
- Deserts
- a barren region with little or no rainfall, usually sandy and without trees
- Scale
- the mathematical relationship by which distances on a map reduce actual distances on earth.
- meridians
- an imaginary circle passing through any place on the earth's surface and through the North and South poles