Geography Terms List
By the end of the school year you will be expected to know all the terms on this list. We will begin with the first few words or so and with each new topic we will add more terms. There will be a vocabulary quiz approximately every week. Any new words, in addition to all previous words on the list, are fair game for these quizzes. These are not all the key terms and people you will be required to learn this year, but these are the ones that will appear on our vocabulary quizzes throughout the year.Why am I doing this to you? There are two reasons. The first is that by the time you take any standardized tests or the Ohio Graduation Test, you will know these words without thinking about them. Secondly, if you are expected to know these words throughout the year, you will truly learn them, rather than just memorize them for a quiz and forget them later.
Note: Terms marked with an asterisk (*) are not found in the 7th grade textbook's glossary. (The definitions are for all other terms are taken from Eastern Hemisphere: Geography, History, Culture by H.H. Jacobs, B. Randolph, and M. L. LeVasseur. Copyright 2001 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Pages 754-764.)
- geography
- latitude
- parallel
- degrees*
- minute*
- Equator
- longitude
- meridian
- Prime Meridian
- absolute location
- relative location
- place*
- physical feature (characteristic)
- human characteristic (feature)
- human-environment interaction
- movement*
- region
- plain
- scale
- distortion
- compass rose
- cardinal directions
- intermediate directions*
- key (legend)
- orbit
- revolution
- axis
- rotation
- earth-sun relationship*
- low latitudes (tropics)
- high latitudes (polar zones)
- middle latitudes (temperate zones)
- plate tectonics
- weathering
- erosion
- atmosphere
- weather
- precipitation
- climate
- tundra
- vertical climate
- population
- population distribution
- population density
- birth rate
- death rate
- life expectancy
- standard of living
- migration
- immigrants
- push-pull theory
- push factor*
- pull factor*
- urbanization
- rural area
- urban area
- suburban area*
- culture
- cultural traits (practice)
- cultural product*
- agriculture
- social structure
- nuclear family
- extended family
- economy
- producer
- consumer
- goods
- services
- want*
- capital goods*
- capitalism
- market economy*
- socialism
- mixed economy*
- communism
- command economy*
- government
- direct democracy
- representative democracy (republic)
- monarchy
- constitutional monarchy
- dictatorship*
- theocracy*
- country*
- nation*
- cultural diffusion
- cultural perspective*
- acculturation
- natural resource
- raw material
- recyclable resource (flow resource)
- renewable resource
- nonrenewable resource
- fossil fuels
- manufacturing
- human resource*
- developed nation
- developing nation
- commercial farming
- subsistence farming
- ecosystem
- deforestation
- social class*
- middle class
- colonialism*
- imperialism
- nationalism
This list was lasted updated on 8/23/06.
