N Geo

An imginary line jouning places of the same longitude on the Earth's surface

The geographic differentialtion of places among and within countries.

The solid planet earth: Core, mantle, and crust. The movement of solid rock are cause by the inner heat energy.

A natural event sucha asa volcanic eruption, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or flood, that interrupts human activities by causing extensive damage and deaths.

A natural resource that is used up once it is extracted fro example coal or metallic minerals.

A resource that is replaced by natural by natural processes at a rate that is faster than its usage.

Material present in the natural enviornment and recognized by humans as of practical worth minerals, siols, water, building stones and timber

Dry or wet acidic deposition of acidic material from the atmosphere, often resluting from sulfur and mitrate gases and particles emitted into the air from coal combustion in power plants.

The ozone is protective shield over the earth in which man made chloroflurcarbons.

Statemetn adopted by the UN convention on Climate Change in 1997 setting trages for reducing primary greenhouse gases.

weathered rock material that develops by the actions of water, animals and plants into a basis for plant growth.

Biome type where plant groth is inhibited by extreme cold.

biome type charaterized by a discontinuous plant cover or none

A major biome type characterized ny grasses wit hfew scattered trees.

A major biome type characterized by closely spaced trees.

The world scale ecosystem type such as tropical rainforest or savanna grassland.

Climate typical of the rolar regins; emtremely cold all year.

The climates of midlatitudes in whci therea are summer-winter tepeature contras without the extremes of lengthy very hot or cold periods.

Climatic enviorment typical of the tropical zone and having high temperatures all year.

The natural process of heating Earth's atmoshphere. Solar rays short wavelengths reach Earth's surface and are absorbed by and heats the lower atmosphere, which contains water vapor and carbon gases. When humans add 2 the carbon gases, they enhave this process raising tempeatures abour "natural levels"

The long erm atmospheric conditions of a place.

A large block of earth's crust and underlying rocks approx. 100km thick and up to serveral thousand kilometers across. eath's interior heat causes plates to move aprat and crash together, forming major relief features including ocean basins, mountains systems and continental areas.

The environments of living organisms where weather, mineral nutrients and solar energy combine.

Where atmosphere ocean environments interact with solid earth environments to produce relief features such as river or glacial valleys and coastal cliffs and beaches.

The combination of atmosphere and oceans in wich movemetn that cause wearther adn sclimate are controled by solar energy.

The growing interconnectedness of he wourld's peoples and the integration of economies, technologies and cultures.

the sutdy of different regions at Earth's surface in theor country and global contexts.

An area of Earths surface with physical and human characteristics that distinguish it from other places.

The distance of place east or west of 0 degree longitude mearsured in degrees.

The imaginary circle joining places of the same latitude on Earth's surface.

Physical Georgraphy

Geographic Information Systems

Latitude

Abslute Location

The study of geographic aspects of the natural enivironment.