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Geography Vocabulary
Geography Vocabulary


== Five Themes of Geography==
* Location
** Absolute Location
** Relative Location
* Regions
* Place
* Movement
* Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)


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== Map terminology ==
 
* Latitude
* Latitude
* Longitude
* Longitude
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* Tropic of Cancer
* Tropic of Cancer
* Tropic of Capricorn
* Tropic of Capricorn
== Five Themes of Geography==
*Location
** Absolute Location
** Relative Location
** Regions
** Place
** Movement
** Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)


== 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
* Bosporus Strait:
- Strait of Gibraltar
** connects Black Sea to Aegean/Mediterranean Seas
- Strait of Magellan
* Strait of Gibraltar
- Beagle Channel
** connects Mediterranean Sea to Atlantic Ocean
- Strait of Hormuz
** ancient Greeks called it the "Pillars of Hercules"
- Bering Strait
* Strait of Magellan
- Strait of Messina
** connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- Bab-el Mendeb Strait
** 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
- Strait of Malacca
* 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