Vocabulary List - Definitions (Term 1 - Year 8 Geography)

Question	Answer
Border	A non-physical / imaginary line separating continents and / or countries. Image: Land Borders Map (binary/octet-stream)
Eurasia	The big land mass that is shared between Asia and Europe Image: Eurasia (binary/octet-stream)
Country V.S Continent	A country is a political entity- it is ruled by political representitives. Continents are not ruled by political representitives, eg Asia isn't ruled by a single president - there are many presidents ruling different countries within Asia.
Indicators of Wealth - GDP	GDP stands for 'Gross Domestic Product.' GDP = Total amount the population of a country earns in a year GDP per person = The GDP divided by the population - this shows how welathy people are on average GDP per person (PPP) = GDP per person is adapted to consider the rate of economy.
Plateau	It is an area of fairly flat high land- they differ from mountains in that their peaks are flat. Image: Plateau (binary/octet-stream)
Population Density	The average number of people living in a place per square km, eg (100 people per square km)
Biome	A biome is a large ecosystem that's plants and animals are adapted to a certain climate. A biome has distinct climates, animals and plants. Image: World Biomes (binary/octet-stream)

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