Vocabulary - Basic Geography

characteristics or features in a particular place (e.g., amount of rainfall or number of trees)

• Connections

• Conditions

• Physical Geography

• Human Geography

natural or human-made links between two places (e.g., a river, a highway)

• Connections

• Conditions

• Defense

• cropland

land which can be used to grow plants that people use (e.g., corn for food or cotton for fiber)

• cropland

• grow land

• connections

• conditions

study of where people have decided to live and what they have chosen to build and do in different parts of the the Earth.

• Human Geography

• Physical Geography

• Biology

• Psychology

study of the Earth's land, air, and water (including mountains and soils, weather and climate, rivers, lakes, and oceans)

• Human Geography

• Physical Geography

• Awesome Geography

• Biology with Geography

Water Supply

• water that people can use to drink or to raise plants and animals

• place that had an especially large population and a large number of public buildings and private homes early in human history

• a place next to water (ocean, lake, river) where ships or large boats can safely unload or load goods and people onto the land.

• land that is usually covered by shallow water that plants grow in

a line of latitude that is near the South Pole; also called the 66.5 degree south latitude line

• Arctic Circle

• Antarctic Circle

a line of latitude that is near the North Pole; also called the 66.5 degree north latitude line

• Antarctic Circle

• Arctic Circle

a line of latitude that is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole; also called the zero(0) degree latitude line

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

refers to the whole world

• Global

• Regional

• Territorial

• District