WG: Unit 1 Vocabulary practice

The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes 

• geography

• Landscape

• regiones

all the human and physical features of an area

• region

• landscape

• geography

• cartography

a part of the world that has one or more features that separate it from another area

• region

• landscape

• geography

• cartography

cartography is...

• map making

• the study of language

• the study of plants

This is the study of the world's human geography features-people, communities, and landscapes. 

• physical geography

• human geography

Physical geography is the study of 

• the people in a community

• the world's geographic features-landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants. 

• parts of a map

The study of the weather

• geography

• Meteorology

• geology

Specific location given by address or GPS location (longitude and latitude) is

• relative location

• Global Positioning system

• absolute location

Match the following

•  north–south lines in the grid

• longitude

• Gives absolute location

• GPS

• A flat drawing of Earth

• globe

• A sphere or ball shaped model Earth

• latitude

• east–west lines in the grid

• map

The Earth is divided in halves...these are called

• equator

• Prime Meridican

• hemispheres

• longitudes