WH Flashcards
Five themes of geography
Location
Place
Region
Movement
Human-environment interaction
scientific study of the physical properties of the world
Geography
geo-
world
-graphia
description
natural features and events in the world, study of climate, atmosphere, landforms and waterforms
Physical Geography
learning about the distribution of human and cultural connections of the world
Human Geogrpahy
where a place is found in the world
Location
the exact point of a place, coordinates
Absolute location
where the basis are places which surround it
Relative location
characteristics of a location
Place
ways to organise places with common characteristics
Region
humans, objects and natural phenomena moving from one place to another
Movement
how humans interact with its environment
Human-environment interaction
known as meridian, equal in length, run in a north-south direction
Longitude
known as parallels, run in an east-west direction, gets shorter towards the poles
Latitude
determines the time of a country
International Date Line
66.5°N and 66.5°S
Artic and Antarctic Circle
23.5°N and 23.5°S
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Equator and Prime Meridian
0°
90°N and 90°S
North and South Pole
occurs in a specific time in a specific place
weather
combination of atmospheric conditions in a place for a prolonged period of time
Climate
believed all continents were together called Pangea
Alfred Wegener
plates are always moving to form continents
Continental drift
jigsaw-like pieces of the eart
Continental drift
land diverges away; = continent
Divergent boundary
land converges to one another; = mountain
Convergent boundary
climbs on top of one another; = earthquakes
Transform boundary
Continents of the world
South America
North America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Antarctica
Australia
