Geography Skills Review

 a science that deals with Earth's surface including physical features (mountains, deserts, rivers, and oceans) as well as the ways people affect and are affected by the natural world.

• Geography
• Geology
• Meteorology
• Oceanography

where a place is compared to another place

• map

• relative location

• landscape

• absolute location

 exact location of something

• climate

• relative location

• culture

• absolute location

the lines on a map that run east to west (measured north to south)

• Longitude lines
• Latitude lines
• Equator lines
• Prime Meridian lines

a line of latitude that runs around the middle of Earth (0° latitude)

• Tropic of Cancer

• Prime Meridian
• Equator

• Tropic of Capricorn

 the lines on a map that run north to south (measured east to west)

• Meridian

• Latitude
• Equator
• Longitude

the starting point for measuring longitude (measured 0° longitude).

• Region

• Climate

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

natural feature found on land

• landforms

• region

• culture

• globilization

 the average weather in an area over a long period of time

• Climate
• Weather
• Atmosphere
• Temperature

Characteristics of a location