5 Themes of Geography Vocabulary Words

What is: Region, Place, Movement, Human-Environment-Interaction, Location?

What is: A great division of land on a globe?

What is: A half section of the earth?

What is: The human and physical features of a specific location. Ex: Auto plants in Detroit

What is: How people, goods and ideas get from one place to another. (Sharing ideas Internet)

What is: the study of people, places and the environment? It includes the study of the earth.

Distance measured east to west of the Prime Meridian;lines called meridian and are drawn N to S

What is: The line of longitude that marks 0 degrees longitude and runs through Greenwich Eng.?

What is: How people depend on, change, or adapt to their environment. Ex: Wear light clothing.

What is: The location of a place in relationship to another place?

Where a place is on Earth.

What is the: 1st geographer's main question?

The surrounding area including the water, climate, land, plant life, animal life, and people.

What is the: 2nd geographer's main question?

Distance measured north to south; lines are parallels drawn from east to west

What is: The exact "address" of a place using latitude and longitude.

The 0 degree latitude line that divides the earth between the northern and southern hemisphere.

What is: Areas that share common physical or human characteristics. Ex: Rocky Mts, Great Lakes