Geography Vocabulary

Natural environmental features; rivers, mountains

• Human Features

• Physical Features

• Region

• Geography

Things that are made or built by Humans

• Physical Features

• Continents

• Human Features

• Regions

Vertical lines on a map that helps us find location

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Large body of land that contains several countries

• Oceans

• Region

• Continents

An IMAGINARY longitude line that divides the Western and Eastern Hemispheres

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

Large body of water that is surrounded by land

• Continents

• Region

• Oceans

An IMAGINARY latitude line around the middle of Earth that divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

An area of land that has common features

• Continents

• Oceans

• Geography

• Region

Horizontal lines on a map that helps us find location

• Longitude

• Latitude

The study of Earth's physical features and how it is affected by humans

• Geography

• Biology

• Anatomy

• Geology