Geography vocabulary

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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

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 UN Geoscheme Regions
  • Oceania
    • Pacific region in general, divided into
  • Australasia
  • Melanesia
  • Micronesia
  • Polynesia