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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) | |||
== | == 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 | ||