Vocabulary Words

 September 5, 2007

Geography Handbook

section 1 pages 4-9

1. globe

2. hemisphere

3. latitude

4. longitude

5. grid system

6. absolute location

7. relative location

8. great circle route

9. projections

section 2 pages 10-13

10. map key

11. cardinal directions

12. compass rose

13. intermediate direction

14. scale bar

15. scale

16. relief

17. elevation

18. contour lines

section 4 pages 39-42

1. elevation

2. plains

3. plateau

4. isthmus

5. peninsula

6. island

7. continental shelf

8. trenches

9.strait

10. channel

11. delta

12. graph

Geography Handbook section2 pages 10-13

13. axis (axes)

14. bar graph

15. line graph

16. circle graph

17. charts

18. pictographs

19. climograph

20. diagram

21. elevation profile

Chapter 10

section 1

1. moor

2. loch

3. currency

4. parliamentary democracy

5. constitutional monarchy

6. devolution

section 2

7. peat

8. bog

section 3

9. navigable

10. republic

section 4

11. autobahn

12. Holocaust

13. communist state

14. federal republic

15. reunification

16. infrastructure

17. neutrality

section 5

18. polder

19. multinational company

20. multilingual

Chapter 19

section 1

1. mangrove

2. savanna

3. harmattan

4. subsistence farming

5. cacao

6. compound

section 2

7. overgraze

8. drought

9. desertification

section 3

10. cassava

11. bauxite

Chapter 17

section 1

1. secular

2. migrate

3. mosque

section 2

1. moshav

2. kibbutz

section 3

1. Bedouins

CHAPTER   24

section 1

1. loess

2. dikes

3. fault

4. typhoons

section 2

5. communist state

6. invest

7. consumer goods

8. tungsten

9. terraced field

section 3

10. dynasty

11. human rights

12. exile

13. calligraphy

14. pagodas

section 4

15. high technology industries

16. steppes

17. empires

18. yurts