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* canals | * canals | ||
** man-made straits | ** man-made straits | ||
** Bahr Yussef | |||
*** connects the Nile to the Faiyum Oasis and Lake Moeris, built 2300 BC | |||
** Canal of the Pharaohs | |||
*** connected the Nile to the Red Sea | |||
*** built by Necho II, Assyrian ruler of Egypt in 7th century BC | |||
*** Persian king Darius I bragged of building a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea (6th century BC) | |||
** Corinth Canal | |||
** Grand Canal | |||
*** conntected the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, built under the Sui dynasty (6th century AD) | |||
** Suez Canal | |||
** Panama Canal | |||
== Land forms == | == Land forms == | ||
Revision as of 03:31, 10 March 2021
Geography Vocabulary
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- Latitude
- Longitude
- Equator
- Prime Meridian
- International Dateline
- Meridians
- Parallels
- a.m. / p.m.
- equinox
- solstice
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
Five Themes of Geography[edit | edit source]
- Location
- Absolute Location
- Relative Location
- Regions
- Place
- Movement
- Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)
Water bodies[edit | edit source]
- lake
- bay
- cape
- channel
- delta
- ocean
- sea
- strait & channel
- important straits and channels
- Bosporus Strait - Strait of Gibraltar - Strait of Magellan - Beagle Channel - Strait of Hormuz - Bering Strait - Strait of Messina - Bab-el Mendeb Strait - Strait of Malacca
- canals
- man-made straits
- Bahr Yussef
- connects the Nile to the Faiyum Oasis and Lake Moeris, built 2300 BC
- Canal of the Pharaohs
- connected the Nile to the Red Sea
- built by Necho II, Assyrian ruler of Egypt in 7th century BC
- Persian king Darius I bragged of building a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea (6th century BC)
- Corinth Canal
- Grand Canal
- conntected the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, built under the Sui dynasty (6th century AD)
- Suez Canal
- Panama Canal
Land forms[edit | edit source]
- continent
- island
- archipelago
- peninsula
- isthmus
- land-bridge
World Oceanic Regions[edit | edit source]
- Mediterranean
- Arabian Sea
- Indian Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Gulf of Mexico
- Caribbean Sea
- China Sea
- North Sea
Oceania[edit | edit source]
- Oceania
- Pacific region in general, divided into
- Australasia
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Polynesia