Geography Overview

Weather patterns in an area usually experienced over a long period of time

• Hemispheres

• Region

• Climate

• Environment

Located on the compass rose, they are North, South, West, East

• Environment

• Cardinal Directions

• Compass Rose

• Intermediate Directions

The exact spot where something is located, usually its latitude and longitude

• Absolute Location

• Cardinal Directions

• Climate

• Relative Location

A navigational instrument, may include cardinal and intermediate directions

• Scale

• Hemispheres

• Equator

• Compass Rose

One of the seven principle landmasses of earth

• Ocean

• Continent

• Geography

• Climate

A change in the accuracy of shapes, direction, or distances shown on maps

• environment

• scale

• distortion

• geography

Our surroundings

• Scale

• Cardinal Directions

• Environment

• Hemispheres

An imaginary latitude line located between the north and south poles at 0 degrees

• equator

• prime meridian

• tropic of cancer

• tropic of capricorn

The study of Earth and the people who live on it and how they use it

• Relative Location

• Environment

• Legend

• Geography

Half of the Earth (hint: there are four)

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Equator

• Hemisphere