Land Production
Regions
Habitat
Growth or Survival
Relations among Geography
100

plants that people grow to use for food (e.g. corn, millet, apples, beans)

What are Crops?

100

dry places that receive little rainfall, have no trees, have few or no plants; tropical deserts are located 20 to 30 degrees north and south of the Equator

What is a Desert?

100

the physical environment (plants, animals, soils, climate) in a place

What is a Habitat?

100

an animal that hunts and eats other animals

What is a Predator?

100

the distance of a geographic location above or below sea level

What is Elevation?

200

water in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls on the land

What is Precipitation?

200

places where most plants are short (short grasses, not trees) because they need only small amounts of water; tropical grasslands are located 15 to 20 degrees north and south of the Equator

What is a Grassland?

200

places with tall trees, warm temperatures in all months, and rainfall at least 10 months; located about 0 to 5 degrees north and south of the Equator

What is an Equatorial Rainforest?

200

a group of places and peoples controlled by one powerful government

What is an Empire?

200

A fairly flat area that is high above sea level.

What is a Plateau?

300

a type of starchy root that grows in places near the equator, a type of food

What is Cassava?

300

places that receive moderate amounts of rainfall so that both short trees and tall grasses can grow there; locate about 5 to 15 degrees north and south of the Equator

What is a Savanna?

300

places near the Equator that receive more than 4 inches of rain in most months of the year

What is the Equatorial Rainy Belt?

300

the areas where a particular type of plant or animal is likely to live (e.g., where fire ants live)

What is a Range?

300

the relationship between two things that usually occur together in the same place (e.g. city and river)

What is Spatial Association?

400

a plant with seeds that people use for food; it grows in warm dry areas (e.g. grasslands) - grains

What is Millet?

400

change as we move along a line between two places; transition can be gradual, abrupt, smooth, etc.

What is a Transition?

400

lack of rain to meet the needs of plants (e.g. the difference between the rain that trees need and the amount that actually falls in a month)

What is a Deficit?

400

a disease that occurs in places that are warm and have rainfall most of the year; spread by mosquitos

What is Malaria?

400

a special graph that shows average temperatures and average precipitation for each month at a place

What is a Climate Graph? (also known as a climagraph, climograph)

500

large, domesticated bovine animals that are raised for their meat, milk, hides, or draft purposes

What are Cattle?

500

a large area that has a particular environment that has a predictable mixture of plants and animals (e.g. rainforest, grassland, desert)

What is an Ecoregion?

500

more than enough rain to meet the needs of particular plants (enough rainfall each month for trees to grow in a place)

What is a Surplus?

500

Someone who grows food for themselves, not for sale to others.

What is Subsistence Farming/Farmers?

500

a chart with rows and columns that helps us organize information

What is a Matrix?

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