geography
What are some geographic tools
maps and globes
A line that shows where a state or a country ends
Border
Land, water, climate, and plant life
Physical Features
Time when plans can grow
growing season
Something from nature that people can use, such as trees, water, and soil
natural resources
Why do geographers need geographic tools
To help them find the location of different places
The location of a place in relation to another place
Relative Location
A chain of Mountains
Mountain Range
the wearing away of the earth's surface from water, wind, or sand
Erosion
Natural Resource that can be found underground, such as gold, copper, iron, and salt
mineral
Largest land areas on a globe (asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, Europe, and Australia)
Continent
Lines on a map/globe that run north and south. They measure distances east and west of the prime merdiian.
Longitude
A low area of land that lies between hills or mountains
valley
the plants, animals, land, water, and climate that make up an area
Ecosystem
a resource that can be made again and again
renewable
Half of the Earth
Hemisphere
Lines on a map that run east and west. They measure distances north and south of the equator
Latiitude
A landform with steed sides that rise to a flat top
Plateau
shows a place's main physical features.
Landform map
a resource that cannot be made quickly by nature ( like coal, oil, minerals)
nonrenewable
An imaginary line that is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
The Equator
An imaginary line that divides a globe in half running from the North Pole to the South Pole
Prime Meridian
Plant life in a place (this is another physical feature)
Vegetation
To Save
Preserve
a natural resource that is burned to make heat or energy
fuel