Landforms and Locations
an artificial lake dammed by a river
What is a reservoir?
refers to the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere in a localized area during a short period time.
Weather
when most of a country's income is derived from agriculture
What is an agrarian economy?
accurately shows direction and shape but distorts area and size
What is Mercator projection?
the warmest ocean
What is the Indian Ocean?
world's freshwater lake
What is the Caspian Sea?
climate zones that have a wide range of temperatures and experience seasons
What is Temperate?
a way of life
What is culture?
helps a reader determine distances
What is a scale?
the percentage of the earth surface is covered by water
What is 70 percent?
flat tops and extremely steep sides, and re usually round or oblong in shape
What are mesas?
the process of moving moisture from the oceans to the land and back to oceans again is called
What is hydrologic cycle?
the most important factor in any culture
What is religion?
the art of making maps
What is cartography?
Name the four oceans
What is Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, and Artic
flat or rolling lands with few changes in elevations
What are plains?
the release of water from the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow, or ice
What is precipitation?
the freedom to follow your own economic pursuits as they see fit through private ownership
What is free enterprise/ capitalism?
explains what the symbols, colors, and lines represent
What is a legend or key?
lines that run east to west around the globe
What are parallel lines/ latitude?
triangular shape landform where a river fans out into smaller streams before it reaches the oceans
What is a delta?
experience high temperatures and heavy precipitation
What is tropical climate?
government owns or at least controls a nations resources and industries
What is socialism?
numerical facts and figures
What is statistics?
lines that run north to south and come together at the poles
What are lines of longitude?