Definitions Flashcards
Site
Land where settlements are built
Settlement
Place where people live : house , village , hamlet , town , city …
Latitude lines
Lines that go around the earth
Longitude lines
Lines that go over the top of the earth .
Physical geography
Geography that has to do with the earths landscape such as relief , storms , tornados , climate…
Human geography
Geography that has to do with humans such as population imigration , refugies …
Environmental geography
Geography that has to do with environmental problems such as recycling , green house gases , deforestation …
Contour lines
Lines that show height on a map . They are drawn connecting points of equal height .
Natural advantage
Good thing about the location of a particular settlement
Natural disadvantage
Bad thing about the location of a particular settlement
Rural
Countryside location with only a limited number of buildings such as a village or hamlet.
Urban
A built up area such as a town or city .
Dispearsed settlement
When the buildings are far apart from each other forming no obvious pattern .
Nucleares settlement
Buildings in a settlement form a cluster
Linear settlement
Buildings in a settlement form a straight line along a road , river or any transport route.
