Geo Final Review
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- favela
- slums in outskirts of brazillian cities
- grid
- crisscross network or parallels and meridians on a map or globe allowing you to locate any point on the earths surface
- maghreb
- arabic word meaning furthest west
- apartheid
- official policy
- hemisphere
- half of a sphere
- estancia
- large ranch or estate in SA
- sphere
- round solid figure all points equally distant from the center
- equator
- an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the poles
- fazenda
- coffee plantation
- rotation
- curved path of a planet about the sun
- globe
- sphere with a map of the earth on it
- solstice
- time of the year when the direct rays of the sun are the greatest distance from the equator
- revolution
- movement of the earth around the sun
- map
- drawing of the earth's surface or part of it
- axis
- imaginary line about which the earth spins
- equinox
- sun crosses the equator and day and night are equal length in all parts of the earth
- mate`
- tea leaves
- gross national product per person
- divide total number of goods and services produced in a year by people
- developing country
- country where most make their money farming
- general reference map
- map showing general info such as continents, bodies of water, and cities
- industrialized country
- most make a living in manufacturing, trade, or business
- special purpose map
- map showing or emphasizing some particular feature, such as land use, annual percipitation, or distribution of people
- culture region
- group of coutries with common language, religion, and ways of making a living
- mesopotamia
- land btwn the tigris and the euphrates
- international date line
- imaginary line agreed upon as the place where each calendar day first begins
- census
- official count of the people in a district or country
- gezira
- region of irrigated land where the nile meets the blue nile
- large scale map
- map of a small area that shows many details
- sharecropper
- person who farms land from the owner in return for part of the crops
- map symbol
- something that stands for or represents a thing or condition
- berber
- original inhabitants of the maghreb lands
- key
- explanation of symbols on a map
- legend
- explanation of symbols on map
- scale
- size of something compared with what it represents
- tropic of capricorn
- parallel 23 1/2 south of the equator
- tropic of cancer
- parallel 23 1/2 north of the equator
- demographer
- person who studies human population
- antarctic circle
- parallel 66 1/2 degrees south of the equator
- small scale map
- leaves out many details and covers a large area or earths surface
- arctic circle
- a special parallel 66 1/2 degrees north of the equator
- hacienda
- large ranch or estate
- fertile crescent
- large area of land stretching in an arc from med sea to persian gulf
- jute
- tough tropical reed used for rope and coarse fabric
- lines of latitude
- a meridian vertical
- bantu
- dark skinned tribes
- squatter
- person who settles on public land without permission
- parallel
- imaginary circles around the earth parallel to the equator
- adobe
- brick made of sundried clay
- boer
- early dutch settlers
- veld
- grassy interior plateau
- rift valley
- long north south valley
- ejido
- large mexican farm owned by several families
- sunnism
- islam most of the world follows
- shiism
- islam used by the persians
- lotus
- water lily
- irrigation
- supplying water to dry lands through pipes, canals, and ditches
- vital statistics
- facts about human lives
- coordinates
- degrees of longitude and latitude that define the position of a place
- afrikaner
- dutch descendants
- gaucho
- cowboy
- loess
- yellowish brown loam, deposited by the wind
- cacao
- make chocolate
- great circle
- any circle on the surface of the earth passing through the center of the earth
- animist
- spirit worshippers
- culture
- all the customs and ways of life a group of people learn
- sisal
- fibers used for making rope
- chicle
- sap; base for bubblegum
- reservoir
- a place where water is stored
- geographer
- a person who studies places on the earths surface and the people in those places
- latifundo
- large estate in south america
- geography
- study of the earth as the home of the people
- meridian
- an imaginary great circle passing through any place on the earths surface and through the north and south poles
- latitude
- distance north or south of the equator
- natural feature
- those things in and around a place that were not made by people
- region
- an area that has some common feature and that differs from surrounding areas
- cultural feature
- those things in and around a place not made by people
- environment
- people's surroundings on earth
- longitude
- distance east or west on the earths surface
- westernize
- to adopt ideas and ways of life by western culture
- prime meridian
- meridian from which the longitute east and west is measured
- language
- speech used by country or people to communicate
- physical feature
- aka natural feature: not made by people
- religion
- system of faith and worship