Glossary
Geography Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential geography professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key geography professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in geography professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Cartography
- Mapmaking.
- GIS
- Geographic information systems.
- Human geography
- Study of people and places.
- Office hours
- Time set aside for students.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Physical geography
- Study of landforms and climate.
- Projection
- Flattening Earth for maps.
- Remote sensing
- Satellite data.
- Sabbatical
- Paid leave for research.
- Scale
- Map size relationship.
- Spatial analysis
- Studying patterns in space.
- Syllabus
- Course plan.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
- Urbanization
- Growth of cities.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Geography Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Geography Professor training.
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