Geography Chapter 1 Vocab

2. _____ Science is the study of landforms, climates, and the distribution of plants and animals.
3. ______ Landscape is the term used to describe those parts of the earth’s surface that have been altered or created by humans.
6. ______ Location the location on the earth’s surface with reference to other places, taking into consideration features such as transportation access or terrain.
7. ________ Geography is the study of human activity and its relationship to the earth’s surface.
11. _______ Geography makes up the environment, such as rivers, mountains, landforms, weather, climate, soils, plants, and any other physical aspects of the earth’s surface.
12. The prime meridian sits at 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The prime meridian is defined as an imaginary line that runs through the Royal Observatory in _________.
13. The impact of humans on their landscape and find out how different cultures have used and changed their environments is defined as human-landscape __________.
14. O. The measurement of distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
15. focuses on a particular _______ to understand the dynamics between human activity and the environment.

1. The measurement of distance north or south of the Equator
4. Physical _______ is the term used to describe the natural terrain at any one place on the planet.
5. ______ Location refers to an exact point on the earth’s surface without regard to how that point is related to any other place.
8. The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these.
9. The equator is the largest circle of latitude on Earth. It divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
10. Uses a computer program to assimilate and manage many layers of map data,
12. This piece of technology receives signals from orbiting satellites and calculate an exact location in latitude and longitude.