Geography vocabulary

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

- See
  - [Top 10 Straits and Channels (morethanshipping.com)]
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