Vocabulary 1
A long period of time without rainfall or other precipitation
Where something is on Earth; absolute or relative
Location
Rocky Mountain Province
Life zone with best farming and grazing land
Lower Sonoran
another word for biomes
Life Zones
Elevated flat land, table-land
Plateau
How people, ideas, and goods get from place to place
Movement
elevated flat land
Colorado Plateau Province
The largest life zone
Upper Sonoran
An area of land with unique physical features
Province
An imaginary line that separates the east part of the continent from the west
Continental divide
Building a dam, growing crops, polluting the air, etc
Human-Environment interaction
Extremely dry, flat land, great for ranching
Great Plains Province
Major timber zone
Transition
A place where people establish a community
settlement
The weather conditions in an area
Climate
physical or cultural characteristics (what it looks like)
Place
Basin and Range Province
Canadian
Natural or manmade body of water used to store water
reservior
A small stream or river that flows into a larger body of water
Tributary
areas that share similarities like location or language; southwest, northwest
Region
New Mexico is in this region
Southwest
Narrow zone, used for sheep grazing
Hudsonian