Vocabulary 1 Week 15+ Week 16
What are the cardinal directions?
north, south, east and west
What is the Equator?
imaginary line that divides the world into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere
What is a biome?
plants and animals that live together in a place
What is agriculture?
activity for growing crops and raising animals
What is human-environment interaction?
how people use the environment to meet their basic needs
What does a globe show?
Bonus: What is the shape of a globe?
shows where the water and land are located
Bonus: It is a sphere
What are latitude lines?
imaginary lines that run east and west around the earth. Latitude = Flatitude
What is climate?
weather pattern of an area
What is industrial?
areas where things are made
What does it mean to adapt?
people change how they live depending on their environment
What is a scale?
the distance between two places on a map
What are longitude lines?
imaginary lines that run north to south
Longitude= long-itude
What are landforms?
large areas of land
What is industry?
the production of goods in factories
What does it mean to modify?
to make a change to the environment
What is absolute location?
a place’s exact location
What is the Prime Meridian?
imaginary lines that divide the world into the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere
What are political maps?
maps that show the borders of cities and the states
What does suburban mean ?
a community of neighborhoods near a big city with space for homes and businesses
What is the difference between human characteristics and physical characteristics?
the ideas people have about how to use the physical environment
part of our natural environment, such as landforms, biomes, and climate region: a basic unit of geography relative
What is relative location?
uses location words like above, next to, by, and under. Not an exact location.
What are services?
Bonus: name a service
type of work or action done for someone else
Bonus: bus driver, barber/hair stylist etc.
what does rural mean?
a community where there are not many people or buildings and lots of space