Introduction to Geography

The Study of the Earth’s natural features, climates, products, and inhabitants

• Astronomy

• Biology

• Geography

• Sociology

The characteristic features of a civilization including its beliefs, its artistic and material products, and its social institutions.

• Government

• Literature

• Technology

• Culture

The study of the world’s natural features such as its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.

• Human Geography

• Physical Geography

• Political Geography

• Regional Geograph

The study of the world’s people and their cultures

• Human Geography

• Political Geography

• Physical Geography

• Regional Geography

A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas

• climate

• weather

• culture

• region

A flat drawing of the Earth's surface that exhibits some distortion of shape and size.

• GPS

• Globe

• Map

• Replica

A spherical model of the entire earth. It should not exhibit distortion.

• GPS

• Globe

• Map

• Replica

An imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North & South Poles, it represents zero degrees latitude

• Equator

• International Date Line

• Mason Dixon Line

• Prime Meridian

An imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England, it represents zero degrees longitude .

• Equator

• International Date Line

• Mason Dixon Line

• Prime Meridian

Lines used to measure distances north or south of the equator

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Liquorice

• Literal