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Jude 6th - Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Intro to Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| geography | study of the earth |
| geo | means earth |
| graph | means writing |
| maps | drawings of the world or certain places on it |
| physical geography | a description of the formations of the earth |
| political geography | a description of the boundaries of states, regions, etc. |
| axis | imaginary line that passes through earth and around which earth rotates |
| poles | ends of the axis |
| latitude | lines run left to right, and measure north to south degrees |
| equator | imaginary latitude line that runs around the middle of the earth and is 0 degrees latitude |
| longitude | lines run up and down, and they measure east to west degrees |
| Prime Meridian | imaginary longitude line that runs through Greenwich, Greenland and is 0 degrees longitude |
| Pangea | supercontinent |
| continental drift | theory that Earth's continents have moved over time |
| Earth's crust | the solid outer part of the planet |
| island | body of land surrounded by water |
| peninsula | body of land surrounded by water on 3 sides |
| Mt. Everest | world's tallest mountain |
| Himalayas | world's tallest mountain range |
| volcanoes | formed by molten rock and ash erupting out of the magma under the crust |
| magma | molten rock material beneath the earth's surface |
| plains | large, flat areas of the world |
| steppe | dry, level grasslands with few or no trees |
| prairie | large area of flat or rolling land with no mountains and few trees |
| savannah | grassland containing scattered trees |
| plateau | large area of high land |
| desert | land with very little or no water |
| Pacific Ocean | world's largest ocean |
| Mississippi River | longest river in the United States |
| Nile River | longest river in the world |
| climate | all weather conditions over a period of time |
| Gulf Stream | warm ocean current that flows in the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of the United States |
| zones | climate regions of the earth |
| plate tectonics | theory that states that Earth’s outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called plates |
| Sahara Desert | largest desert in the world |
| temperate zones | zone that is most hospitable to human life, with temperatures not too hot and not too cold |
| polar zones | zone that is frozen year round and inhospitable to human life |
| tropic zones | regions of the Earth that lie roughly in the middle of the globe, closest to the equator |
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