Geography
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- Peterson
- A type of map projection that depicts the continents' sizes more accurately than Mercator.
- GPS
- Geographic Positioning System
- Map legend
- Lists and explains the symbols and colors used on a map.
- Contour map
- A map showing heights at regular intervals above sea level by means of contour lines.
- Cartography
- The making or study of maps or charts.
- Parallel
- Any of the imaginary circles around the earth parallel to the equator, marking degrees of latitude.
- Organic production
- Grown or prepared with natural fertilizers or without the use of insecticides and other chemicals: organic food.
- Deserts
- A barren region with little or no rainfall, usually sandy and without trees...
- Pesticides
- Any one of various substances used to kill harmful insects (insecticide), fungi (fungicide), vermin, or other living organisms that destroy or inhibit plant growth, carry disease, or are otherwise harmful.
- Biome
- A natural community of plants and animals, its composition being largely controlled by climatic conditions.
- Geography
- The study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products.
- Grasslands
- Land with grass on it.
- Niche
- The ecological "job and address" of a plant or animal in nature.
- Topography
- The surface features of a place or region. The topography of a region includes hills, valleys, streams, lakes, bridges, tunnels, and roads.
- Projections
- A number of mathematical methods that cartographers use to produce a flat map of the round earth.
- Geographic grids
- Networks of imaginary lines that help us find and describe places on earth.
- Distortion
- A distorting; twisting out of shape.
- Latitude
- Distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
- GIS
- Geographic Information System
- Mercator
- A Mercator chart represents the meridians and parallels of latitude as straight lines.
- Equator
- An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
- Prime meridian
- Russia's main independent TV station.
- Mollweide
- A type of homolographic map projection in which the surface of the earth is represented as an ellipse, with the equator and parallels of latitude as straight lines.
- Compass
- An instrument for showing directions, consisting of a needle or compass card that points to the north magnetic pole, which is near the North Pole.
- Recycle
- To put wastes, garbage, or the like, through a cycle of purification and conversion to useful products.
- Coniferous forests
- Forests of trees that bear cones.
- Deciduous forests
- Forests of trees that shed leaves each year.
- Physical Geography
- Concerned with the locations of such earth features as land, water, and climate; their relationship to one another and to human activities; and the forces that create and change them.
- Renewable resources
- A resource that can be renewed, solar, wind.
- Longitude
- Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole).
- Stewardship
- To keep up or keep going, as an action or process.
- Tropical rain forests
- A woodland of tall trees growing in a region of year-round warmth and abundant rainfall.
- Consumerism
- Concentration on producing and distributing goods for a market which must constantly be enlarged.
- Tundra
- A vast, level, treeless plain in the arctic regions. The ground beneath the surface of the tundras is frozen even in summeril.
- Scale
- The mathematical relationship by which distances on a map reduce actual distances on earth.
- Human geography
- Concentrates on patterns of human activity and on their relationships with the environment.
- Meridians
- An imaginary circle passing through any place on the earth's surface and through the North and South poles.
- Savannas
- A region of grassland with scattered trees lying between the equatorial forest and the hot deserts in either hemisphere.