World Geography Vocabulary List 5 2025

An imaginary line or general movement in a certain direction.

• Biome

• Trend

• Authority

• Prairie

Being the only one; distinctive, unlike anything else.

• Unique

• Leeward

• Deciduous

• Mixed forest

Power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior.

• Authority

• Regulate

• Incentive

• Rain shadow

To govern or direct according to rule.

• Regulate

• Coniferous

• Prairie

• Doldrums

Something that motivates one to act.

• Incentive

• Unique

• Average daily temperature

• Windward

The diagonal movement of winds caused by the Earth’s rotation.

• Coriolis effect

• Rain shadow

• Biome

• El Niño

A frequently windless area near the Equator.

• Doldrums

• Oasis

• Leeward

• Coniferous

A periodic reversal of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region.

• El Niño

• Windward

• Deciduous

• Average daily temperature

Facing the direction from which the wind is blowing.

• Windward

• Leeward

• Rain shadow

• Prairie

Facing the direction toward which the wind is blowing.

• Leeward

• Windward

• Oasis

• Mixed forest