Unit 1 Physical Geography
Chapters 1 - 3
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Georgia Standards:
SSWG1: The student will explain the physical aspects of geography.
a. Describe the concept of place by explaining how physical characteristics such as
landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life are used
to describe a place.
b. Explain how human characteristics, such as population settlement patterns, and
human activities, such as agriculture and industry, can describe a place.
c. Analyze the interrelationship between physical and human characteristics of a place.
Essential Questions:
1. How and why was geography created? What are its major elements?
2. How are humans (how are you) affected by physical geography?
3. How do we impact the physical geography of the planet?
Vocabulary: due - _______________
Chapter 1: _______
Chapter 2: _______
1. geography
20. landform
2. absolute location
21. Continental shelf
3. relative location
22. relief
4. hemisphere
23. topography
5. equator
24. tectonic plate
6. prime meridian
25. earthquake
7. latitude
26. tsunami
8. longitude
27. volcano
9. 5 Themes of Geography
28. Ring of Fire
10. globe
29. weathering
11. map
30. delta
12. cartographer
31. Glacier
13. map projection
14. GIS
15. GPS
16. planar projections
17. conical projections
18. Mercator projection
19. Robinson projection
Chapter 3: ________
32. solstice
33. equinox
34. Tropic of Cancer
35. Tropic of Capricorn
36. weather
37. precipitation
38. rain shadow
39. hurricane
40. typhoon
41. tornado
42. blizzard
43. drought
44. convection
45. El Nino
46. La Nina
47. greenhouse effect
48. tundra
49. permafrost
50. ecosystem
51. biome
52. deciduous
53. rain forest
54. coniferous
55. savanna
56. steppe