GEO
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
geo | earth, ground |
geocentric | measured from the earth's center; having the earth as a center |
geodetic | pertaining to geodesy |
geography | study of earth's surface, climate, continents, people, products, etc. |
geology | science dealing with the earth's history recorded in rocks |
geometry | math dealing with lines, angles, surfaces and solids |
geomorphic | pertaining to the shape of the earth or the form of its surface |
geophysics | science treating of the forces that mofidy the earth |
geopolitics | study of government and its policies as affected by physical geography |
geoponics | art or science of agriculture |
georgic (adj) | agricultural |
georgic (n) | poem on husbandry |
geotropism | response to earth's gravity, as the growing of roots downward in the ground |
apogee | farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a satellite |
perigee | nearest point to the earth in the orbit of a satellite |
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