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'''Geography Vocabulary'''
'''Geography Vocabulary'''
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== Five Themes of Geography==
== Five Themes of Geography==
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* Movement
* Movement
* Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)
* Human-Environment Interaction (Relationships within Places)
** Cultural Diffusion
* See [Social Studies Skills]


== Map terminology ==
== Map terminology ==
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== Water bodies ==
== Water bodies ==
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=== bay ===
=== bay ===
=== canal ===
=== canal ===
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** "headland" is a "coastal landform," usually with a high point and cliffs  
** "headland" is a "coastal landform," usually with a high point and cliffs  
** "promontory" is a raised land body that extends into lower land or water
** "promontory" is a raised land body that extends into lower land or water
*** promontories are often used a defensive positions for forts and castles
*** promontories are often used a defensive positions for forts, castles and defensive positions
*** a promontory in water is a peninsula
*** a promontory in water is a peninsula
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* '''Cape Canaveral''' - Florida
* '''Cape Canaveral''' - Florida
* '''Cape Cod''' - Massachusetts  
* '''Cape Cod''' - Massachusetts  
* '''Cape Discord''' - Greenland
* '''Cape of Good Hope''' - South Africa
* '''Cape of Good Hope''' - South Africa
* '''Cape Discord''' - Greenland
* '''Cape Horn''' - Chile
** southernmost headland, or tip of land, on Hornos Island, one of the Hermite Islands, the southernmost of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America
** northern boundary of the Drake Passage
* '''Cape Kidnappers''' - New Zealand
* '''Cape Three Forks''' - Morocco
* '''Cape Three Forks''' - Morocco
* '''Cape Kidnappers - New Zealand
* ''' Cape Vert''' - Senegal; the westernmost point of Africa
* '''Cape Horn''' - Chile (northern boundary of the Drake Passage)
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* '''Cape Verde''' -- verte? - Senegal
** southernmost headland, or tip of land, on Hornos Island, one of the Hermite Islands, the southernmost of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America
Click EXPAND for a list of important capes
Click EXPAND for a list of important capes
* See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_(geography)#List_of_some_well-known_capes List of Well Known Capes (wiki)]]
* See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_(geography)#List_of_some_well-known_capes List of Well Known Capes (wiki)]]
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=== continent ===
=== continent ===
=== island ===
=== island ===
* archipelago
=== archipelago ===
* a series of geographically proximate or geologically similarly island, usually formed in a chain or a cluster
=== isthmus ===
=== isthmus ===
=== land-bridge ===
=== land-bridge ===
=== peninsula ===
=== peninsula ===


== World Oceanic Regions ==
== Major world regions per continent ==
 
=== Americas ===
* North America
* Central America
* South America
* Caribbean
=== Asia ===
* West Asia
* East Asia
* South Asia
* Southeastern Asia
 
=== Africa ===
* East Africa
* North Africa
* West Africa
* Sub-Saharan Africa
* South Africa
=== Australia ===
=== Europe ===
* Eastern Europe
* Western Europe
* Scandinavia
=== Other major regions terminology ===
* Eurasia
* Mediterranean
*
 
 
== World oceanic regions ==
* Mediterranean
* Mediterranean
* Arabian Sea
* Arabian Sea
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* China Sea
* China Sea
* North Sea
* North Sea
* Macaronesia (Atlantic)


=== Oceania ===
=== Oceania ===
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* Australasia
* Australasia
* Melanesia
* Melanesia
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* Micronesia
* Micronesia
* Polynesia
* Polynesia
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* List of independent nations of Oceania:
=== Independent nations of Oceana ===
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* Australia
* East Timor
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Fiji
* Indonesia
** Only Papua, or Indonesian New Guinea is part of Oceania, whereas the rest of Indonesia is located in Southeast Asia
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Tuvalu
* Nauru
* Vanuatu
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Also:
** Cook Islands and Niue are "associated states" with New Zealand
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* Click EXPAND to see list of independent nations of Oceana
* See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Oceania List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Oceania (wiki)]]
 
=== Macaronesia ===
* island region in Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal and West Africa
** volcanic islands
* Macaronesia consists of:
* Azores islands
** Portuguese territories
* Canary Islands
** Portuguese territories
* Madeira islands
** Spanish territories
* '''Cape Verde'''
** officially "Republic of Cabo Verde"
*** it won independence from Portugal in 1975
*** a democratic republic
** named for Cape Vert in Senegal, which is directly east of Cape Verde
** consists of 10 volcanic islands
 


=== Fun Facts ==-
=== Fun Facts ==-