Landforms
land surrounded completely by water
What is an island?
the four major directions
What is cardinal?
studies the land and its features
What is a geographer?
useful things found in nature
What are natural resources?
an area that has common characteristics
What is a region?
projecting land mass higher than a hill
What is a mountain?
the four in-between directions
What is intermediate?
a thing from nature that is useful to us
What is a natural resource?
coal, natural gas, oil
What are fuels?
defined by physical features they contain
What are physical regions?
a large natural stream of water
What is a river?
the acronym for the 5 Great Lakes
What is HOMES?
pumps water from a reservoir to crops
What is irrigation?
deposits found all across the nation
What is coal?
an area where people share one or more common characteristics
What are human regions?
narrow channel connecting two large bodies of water
What is a strait?
mountain range in the western part of the United States
What are the Rocky Mountains?
an area that shares common characteristics
What is a region?
water which gets dirtier, and dirtier
What is polluted?
regions defined by how the people in them make their living
What are economic regions?
narrow part of land jutting into the water
What is a cape?
used to find locations on a globe
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
a person's surroundings
What is environment?
needed to survive
What are natural resources?
two distinct ways in which geographers define regions
What are human and physical characteristics?