Geoterms
Weather patterns over a long period of time
What is climate?
This type of land use on an Economic Activity map can be found anywhere there's ocean.
What is commercial fishing?
Better bundle up when visiting this region. There's permanent ice and snow.
What is ice cap?
This thematic map will help you find the warmest, driest place to move to.
What is a climate zone map?
Some people consider this to be an ordinary, even boring word. To geographers, it's an area of flat, level country.
What is a plain?
Any natural characteristic of our Earth -- land or body of water
What is a physical feature?
If you're in this Economic Activity, you're likely a person who yells, "Timber!"
What is forestry?
This climate zone is hot and dry all year with very little rain.
What is arid?
This type of map will clearly show you rivers, mountain ranges, and elevation.
What is a physical features map?
In addition to being the "Sunshine State," this southern state also happens to be a peninsula.
What is Florida?
If you're ever knocked over the head and wake up in a street that looks like this, you can be certain that you've been taken to a city with a high amount of this.
What is population density?
This type of Economic Activity is found mostly in the tundra and subarctic regions.
What is hunting and gathering?
Are you eager for heat, rain, and big, beautiful leaves to look at? Take a trip to this climate zone near the equator.
What is tropical wet or tropical wet and dry?
On an economic activity map, commercial fishing and nomadic herding are examples of these.
What are land uses?
DD: Whether it's crooked or not, this body of water connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
If you live in a region, it means you live in a unique are set apart by natural characteristics and these types of characteristics.
What are cultural?
There's a lot of lying down on the job with this land use -- and the humans don't have much to do either.
What is nomadic herding?
(Daily Double)
One of the two types of vegetation zones that would be found in the arid or semiarid region.
What is desert scrub or desert.
Tundra, Chaparral, and Desert are all regions you would see on this type of map.
What is a vegetation zone map?
This physical feature is actually named for a French word that means "tray" or "platter."
What is a plateau?
From the largest -- like continents and mountains -- to the smallest, like hills and dunes, all of these are examples of this type of physical feature.
What are landforms?
With this land use, you literally work the ground to feed your family.
What is subsistence farming?
The vegetation zone in which Pennsylvania is found.
What is mixed forest?
On a population density map, a crowded area is densely populated, while an area with very few people is considered this.
What is sparsely populated?
This part of the world is considered an isthmus because it connects North and South America.
What is Central America?