Vocabulary
The study of people, places and the environment
What is Geography?
Half of the earth's surface
What is hemisphere?
The Florida Keys are located here
What is the southern tip of the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
The usual weather of a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
What is a region?
Sunlight and water
the height of a landform above sea level
What is elevation?
You would travel in this direction to get to Orlando from Jacksonville
What is south?
Things found is nature that are useful to people
What are natural resources?
An imaginary line between regions
What is a boundary?
A line that shows the edge of a region that has the same government
What is a border?
Land (ex: swamp) covered by water for part of the year.
What is wetland?
This explains what the colors, symbols, and lines on a map stand for.
What is a legend?
resources that can be replaced
What are renewable resources?
Florida is divided into these three natural regions
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the East Gulf Coastal Plain and the Florida Uplands
The level of the surface of the world's oceans
What is sea level?
A feature of earth's surface
What is a landform?
Plains that run along the coasts of Florida and are lined by barrier islands
What are the Atlantic Coastal Plain and The East Gulf Coastal Plain?
Resources that cannot be replaced
What are nonrenewable resources?
Regions that are based on history, language, or background
What are examples of human features?
A piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
Two of Florida's main rivers
What are the St. Johns and the Suwannee rivers
Imaginary lines that cross one another to form a grid over the earth's surface.
What are lines of latitude and lines of longitude?
Oil, coal and minerals
What are nonrenewable resources
The narrow part of Florida that curves along the northern portion of the Gulf of America
What is the Florida panhandle?