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thinking like a geographer vocab
Question | Answer |
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a book with maps | atlas |
height above sea level | elevation |
study of the earth and people | geography |
latitude line 66 1/2 degrees north | arctic circle |
latitude line 66 1/2 degrees south | antarctic circle |
map that shows specific info like climate or population | thematic map |
measures distacne on maps | scale bar |
north, south, east, west | cardinal directions |
distance between two places in real life and on a map | map scale |
half of the earth | hemisphere |
the main line of latitude | equater |
circle shaped graph shows whole divide | circle graph |
a ball that looks like the earth | globe |
as much people in one place | population |
a graph that compares info | bar graph |
a way to show cities, capitals, mountians etc.. | map key |
a way to show direction on a map | compass rose |
type of weather | climate |
body of water that extends to the shoreline | bay |
moving streams on the water | currents |
a land or place | land form |
part of the body of water that is biger than a bay | harber |
violent tropical storm with high wind and heavy rain fall | hurricane |
a land surrounded by a body of water | island |
small onland body of water | lake |
cold climate with high elevation like a mountain | high land climate |
warm and rainy | tropical climate |
movments in air | wind |
caused by the combination of temperture wind and water | El Nino |
eastern winds become strong and the opposite of el nino | La Nina |
dry like areas with little of rain cold temperture to hot fast | dry climate |
funnel shaped deadly wind storm that could happen in a bad storm | tornado |
tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn | tropics |
huge land that goes high up | mountain |
a series of mountains touching | mountain range |
seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time | monsoon |
unpredictable changes in the air that can take place in a long or short period of time | weather |
body of land into a lake or ocean surrounded by three sides of water | piniinsula |
area of low land at low elevation covered with grass | plain |
flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 3oo-3,ooo ft. | plateau |
place with natuarl occurring like landforms, climate, and resources | physical feature |
large natural stream of water that runs through land | river |
large body of water like ocean | sea |
narrow stretch of water joining two large bodies of water | strait |
one of the four major bodies of salt water | ocean |
mountian created as liquad rock and ash comes from the center of earth and erups | volcano |
area of lowland between hills and mountains | valley |
lines that run through the north and south on the globe or map | longitude |
when latitude and longitude lines cross each other | grid system |
shows climate or weather patterns in a specific place | climograph |
makes comparisonusing symbols or pictures | pictographs |
how far and in what direction one place is to another | relative location |
a map showing people and made boundaries | political map |
a map that shows elevation | physical map |
wide strait or water way betwee two land masses that lie close to each other | channel |
long periods of extreme dryness and water shortage | drought |
hight above sea level | elevation |
average amount of people per square mile | population density |
a graphic way to presenting info in an orginized way | chart |
name for a hurricane in asia | typhoon |
part of a large body of water that exstends inland larger than a bay | gulf |
temperture climate extend from 231/2degrees north to 60 degrees north and from 23 1/2 degrees south to 60 degrees south | mid-latitude cliamte |
the exact position of a place on earth | absolute location |