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| What is Geography? | Geography is the study of the earth,people,their environments,and culture |
| land on earth also includes what? | land on earth also includescontinents and countrys |
| What are magor land forms on earth? | Magor land forms on earth are mountains, hills, plains, and plateaus |
| What are the two main features on earth | land and water forms |
| countrys are what? | divisions of land made by man |
| waterforms on earth also include what | oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes |
| the 8 seas are? | Norht,caribbean,meteranian,arabian,caspion,black,bering,sea of japan |
| What are the 5 themes of geography | the 5 themes of geography arelocation, place, HEI (HUman environment interaction),movement, and region |
| loction tells what? | the posion of a place on earth |
| PLace | descibes an area in terms of its physical and human characteristics |
| physical characteristics | physical characteristics include landforms, climate, and soil |
| human characteristics | human characteristics include transpartation systems,buildings, monuments, and other man made objects |
| H.E.I. | (HUman environment interaction) tells how people adapt to their environment |
| movement | how people goods and ideas move |
| region is what? | is an area with simulations like language, relion, and culture |
| maps and globes are used to represent the earth | maps and globes are used to represent the earth |
| globes do What? | give an perfect picture of the earth |
| MAps do what? | maps are not perfect but more portable |
| a releif map shows what? | elivation |
| valley | low land between hills and mountains |
| plateau | large area of high land that is flat or gently rolling |
| river | large steam of water that emptys into an ocean or lake or an other river |
| tributary | stream or small river that flows into a larger stream or river |
| delta | area formed by soil deosited at the mouth of the river |
| cape | narrow point of land that extends into a body of water |
| coast | land that borders the sea or and ocean |
| lake | a body of wate surrounded by land |
| hill | area of raised land that is lower and more rounded than a mountain |
| penninsula | piece of land thta is surrounded by land on three sides |
| canyon | a deep narrow valley with steep sides |
| stait | a narrow strech of water that connects two larger bodys of water |
| mountain | high steep rugged land area that rises above surrounding land |
| robinson projection | it shows the correct sizes of most land masses and gives a pretty good veiw of sizes of oceans and distances across land but it distorts places especaly along the edges |
| interrupted projection | it shows the correct sizes and shapes of landmasses by cutting out parts of oceans However it makes it impossible to plot distances across oceans |
| Mercator projection | it shows direction accurately however it distorts the sze and shpe of lands near the north an south poles |
| peters projection | correct areas of landmasses and oceans and directions are acurate however it distorts lands near the equator |
| sound | a body of water seperating one or more islands from the mainland |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodys of land |
| ocean | one of the 4 large bodys of water on earth |
| island | land entirly surrounded by water smaller than a continent |
| continent | one of the seven large bodys of land on earth |
| plain | low area of farily level land usaully close to sea level |
