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

• Location
  • Absolute Location
  • Relative Location
  • Regions
  • Place
  • Movement
  • Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)

Water bodies

• 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
  • Suez Canal
  • Panama Canal
  • Carthage Canal

Land forms

• continent
• island
  • archipelago
• peninsula
• isthmus
• land-bridge

World Oceanic Regions

• Mediterranean
• Arabian Sea
• Indian Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Gulf of Mexico
• Caribbean Sea
• China Sea
• North Sea

Oceania

Oceania UN Geoscheme Regions

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