Geography Vocabulary

The scientific study of the earth is called?

• Globalization

• Photography

• Geography

• Archeology

The top generals met with the President at the ________, to plan a military operation.

• Latitude

• Capital

• Pattern

• Longitude

__________ is the angular measurement east and west of the Prime Meridian

• Longitude
• Latitude
• Altitude
• Equator

Refers to the local time of a region or a country.

• Military Time

• Global Standard Time
• Time Zones

• Greenwich Mean Time

The organization of earth’s surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas.

• Geography
• Globalization

• Cartography
• Regionalization

The physical gap or distance between two objects.

• Gravity
• Space
• Location

• Time

Key West has a better climate than Richmond, because of it's proximity too

• The Equator
• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Prime Meridian

____________ is the place where a particular point or object exists.

• Location
• Destination
• Direction
• Distance

The arrangement of objects on earth’s surface in relationship to one another.

• Location

• Place

• Pattern

• Space

A specific point on earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other places.

• Longitude
• Latitude
• Equator

• Place