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Vocabulary
Physical Features
Climates
Pop Dense/Econ Act
Random Info
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Climate
What is the pattern of weather over a long period of time?
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A narrow strip of land with water on each side, that joins two larger pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
100
Rain, snow, sleet, slush, or other forms of moisture?
What is precipitation?
100
On a population density map, black circles represent _______ and color represents ____________.
What are urban population and population density?
100
I figured out how cholera was being spread
Who is John Snow
200
economic activity
What is the action that relates to the making, buying, and selling of goods and services?
200
A long piece of land, surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
Patterns of temperature and precipitation are shown on this type of graph.
What is a climagraph?
200
Turning resources into goods to sell.
What is manufacturing?
200
A map that presents information related to only one theme or topic
What is a thematic map?
300
population density
What is the average number of people who live in a unit of area, such as a square mile? (how crowded an area is)
300
a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water
What is a strait
300
The latitudes on earth that get the most amount of direct sunlight.
What is tropical latitudes?
300
People that move around often to find food and water for their animals are known as ...
What are Nomadic Herders?
300
coal, uranium, and petroleum
What are natural resources?
400
physical feature
What is any natural characteristic of Earth's surface, such as landforms and bodies of water?
400
In order of size (smallest first) these are inlets of the sea almost surrounded by land
What are a bay and a gulf?
400
The two factors which influence a place's climate.
What are latitude and elevation (altitude)?
400
The business of using trees as resources for making homes, furniture and paper.
What is forestry?
400
an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas
What is a region?
500
landform
What is any natural feature of Earth's surface that has a distinct shape. (major features such as continents, plains, plateaus, and mountain ranges)
500
A series of islands.
What is an archipelago? ?
500
The climate zone that Greece has.
What is Mediterranean?
500
How do you calculate population density?
Divide the total population of an area by the location's total land area.
500
ask a question, gather information, organize information, analyze, and (hopefully) answer your question
What is the geographic inquiry process?