Geography

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geography

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the study of the earths surface and the process that shapes it the connection of places people and there inviorment

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landform

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an area of the earths surface with a definate shape example(mountain)

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erosion

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a process by which water,wind or ice that wears away landforns and caries it to another place

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gazetter

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a geographical dictonary of locations

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distorion

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a misrepreintation of a true shape

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mountain

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a land form that rises more than 2000 ft. wide at the bottom and narrow at the peak

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plain

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a larg area of flat gently rolling land mainly no trees

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reviloution

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one complete orbit of the earth around the sun(once a year)

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progection

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a representation of the earths rounded suface on a flat piece of paper

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plateau

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a larg mostly flat area that rises above surrounding land at least one side a steep slope

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orbit

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a plath followed in space as it moves around another such as the earth moves around the sun

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climate

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the weather patterns that a place typically experiences over a long peirod of time

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weather

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the condision of the bottom layer of the earths atmosphere in one place in a short period of time

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plate tectonics

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the theory that earths crust is made of huge slowly moving slabes of rock called plates

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plate

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in geography a huge section of the earths crust

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middle latitudes

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the regions between the tropic of cancer in the artic cirlce and the tropic of capricorn and the antartic circle

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rotation

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a spinning motion of the earth like a top on its axis earth takes about 24 to rotation one time

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low latitude

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the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capircorn or the tropics

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high latitude

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the high latitudes are the polar zones of the globe the artic circle to the north and the antartic to the south 66.5 degrees

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hemisphere

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the equator and the prime meridian both divide the earth into each half is called a hemisphere

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pangaea

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the first animals to walk on land lived on pangaea,was thought to be the only huge landmass on earth

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larg scale map

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it shows the smallest area but has the greatest detail like a zoom on a camera

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political map

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main purpose is to show continesnts contries and divisions within countries such as states or providences

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physical maps

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like political maps also show land of regions what they look like physical features such as hills and mountains

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small scale map

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the small map has the smallest scale and shows the fewest details