Absolute Location
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Arable
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Settlement Patterns
The way people distribute themselves in their environment, including where they locate their dwellings, how they group dwellings into settlements,and how permanent or transitory those settlements are
Equator
An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
Hemisphere
half of the earth
Physical features
any natural characteristic of Earth's surface, such as land forms and bodies of water
Spatial Distribution
physical location of geographic phenomena across space
Prime Meridian
The meridian, designated at 0� longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
Relative Location
The position of a place in relation to another place
5 themes of geography
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region
Renewable resource
A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed
Mesopotamia
A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian e
Strait of Gibraltar
Narrow waterway that separates Europe from Africa by 8 miles
Huang He river valley
A river found in northern China that carries yellow loess (or silt) to its delta. The river is known as the Yellow River and is sometimes called "China's Sorrow" because of the devastating flooding it can cause
Appalachian Mountains
A mountain range that stretches from eastern Canada south to Alabama.
Danube River
The second-longest river of Europe. It flows from southern Germany east into the Black Sea.
Ontario
One of Canada's core provinces
Largest population density due to warm climate and location
Mediterranean Sea
Sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa
Ganges River
Is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh
Mississippi River
A major North American river and the chief river of the United States, longest river in the U.S.
Amazon River
A major river in South America that flows through Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.
Sahara Desert
the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
Indian Ocean
The third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions.
This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the post classical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Gobi Desert
One of the worlds largest deserts, covers part of China and present-day Mongolia.
Great Barrier Reef
a 1,250-mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral