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== Five Themes of Geography== | |||
* Location | |||
** Absolute Location | |||
** Relative Location | |||
* Regions | |||
* Place | |||
* Movement | |||
* Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places) | |||
== | == Map terminology == | ||
* Latitude | * Latitude | ||
* Longitude | * Longitude | ||
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* Tropic of Cancer | * Tropic of Cancer | ||
* Tropic of Capricorn | * Tropic of Capricorn | ||
== Water bodies == | == Water bodies == | ||
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* sea | * sea | ||
* strait & channel | * strait & channel | ||
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** important straits and channels | ** important straits and channels | ||
* Bosporus Strait: | |||
** connects Black Sea to Aegean/Mediterranean Seas | |||
* Strait of Gibraltar | |||
** connects Mediterranean Sea to Atlantic Ocean | |||
- Strait of Hormuz | ** ancient Greeks called it the "Pillars of Hercules" | ||
* Strait of Magellan | |||
** connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | |||
** the passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first expedition to circumnavigated the globe | |||
* Beagle Channel | |||
** See | ** a second, less navigable passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle | ||
** NOTE: the open-ocean passageway, around the very tip of South America is called "Drake's Passage", named for English explorer Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe | |||
* Strait of Hormuz | |||
* Bering Strait | |||
* Strait of Messina | |||
* Bab-el Mendeb Strait | |||
* Strait of Malacca | |||
** See: | |||
*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait Strait (wiki)]] | |||
*** [[https://www.morethanshipping.com/the-worlds-top-10-strategic-straits-and-channels Top 10 Straits and Channels (morethanshipping.com)]] | *** [[https://www.morethanshipping.com/the-worlds-top-10-strategic-straits-and-channels Top 10 Straits and Channels (morethanshipping.com)]] | ||
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* click expand to see list of important straits | |||
* canals | * canals | ||
** man-made straits | ** man-made straits | ||
Revision as of 16:21, 10 March 2021
Geography Vocabulary
Five Themes of Geography[edit | edit source]
- Location
- Absolute Location
- Relative Location
- Regions
- Place
- Movement
- Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)
Map terminology[edit | edit source]
- Latitude
- Longitude
- Equator
- Prime Meridian
- International Dateline
- Meridians
- Parallels
- a.m. / p.m.
- equinox
- solstice
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
Water bodies[edit | edit source]
- lake
- bay
- cape
- channel
- delta
- ocean
- sea
- strait & channel
- important straits and channels
- Bosporus Strait:
- connects Black Sea to Aegean/Mediterranean Seas
- Strait of Gibraltar
- connects Mediterranean Sea to Atlantic Ocean
- ancient Greeks called it the "Pillars of Hercules"
- Strait of Magellan
- connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- the passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first expedition to circumnavigated the globe
- Beagle Channel
- a second, less navigable passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle
- NOTE: the open-ocean passageway, around the very tip of South America is called "Drake's Passage", named for English explorer Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe
- Strait of Hormuz
- Bering Strait
- Strait of Messina
- Bab-el Mendeb Strait
- Strait of Malacca
- click expand to see list of important straits
- 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