Geography Terms
Where something is
What is a location
Shows roads in the area
materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
What are natural resources?
What is longitude
What the area is like
What is a place?
0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
A depiction of weather patterns in a given area
What is a climate map?
fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing organic molecules originating in ancient photosynthesis that release energy in combustion.
An area that shares some characteristics, physical or cultural grouping
What is a region?
0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
indicates the features of the land's surface, such as mountain, hills, and valleys
What is a topographic map?
Not depleted when used
The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
What is Latitude?
Planting, deforestation, industrialization, creating roadways
What is human interaction with the environment?
Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, Southern
What are the Oceans?
a depiction of the geographic features of an area
What is a physical map ?
existing in finite quantity; not capable of being replenished
What are non renewable resources?
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
What is culture?
What is a political map?
Prevention of wasteful use of a resource
What is conservation?