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A flat drawing or illustration of an area.
What is a Map.
Scientists who study geography
What is geographers
To change or modify conditions to suit surroundings.
What is adapt
Measured atmospheric conditions such as wind, precipitation, and/or temperature.
What is weather
A series of valleys between the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains through which the Arkansas River Flows.
What is the Arkansas River Valley?
Referring to a location that is approximate
Adjusting slightly or changing to achieve a result.
What is Modifying
Referring to the precise location of a place.
What is absolute location
The point of existence of a place on earth.
What is location
Flat topped plateau of mountains of Northwest Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma, and southwestern Missouri. the steepest portion is Boston Mountains of Northwest Arkansas.
What is Ozark Mountains
What is human environmental interaction
One of the five themes of geography used when discussing the exchange or development of ideas, good, and/or people.
What is movement
One of the five themes of geography used when discussing the personality or unique and distinguishing features of a location or region.
What is Place
The long term predictable weather patterns of an area.
What is climate
A unique mountain range that is folded, with long east-west ridges running throughout.
What is Ouachita Mountains
Divisions of the globe using either a northern and southern division or an eastern and western one.
What is Hemispheres
The imaginary line that divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Relying on help from someone or something else to exist or survive.
What is interdependent.
An explosive, naturally occurring chemical, also called methane, used for home cooking and heating.
What is natural gas
Hills on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain that are from one to twelve miles wide and about two hundred miles in length, running from Missouri to Helena, Arkansas.
What is Crowley's Ridge
A dark liquid, crude oil, that is found beneath the earths surface.
What is petroleum
Starting point from which longitude is measured.
What is Prime Meridian
Wind born soil
What is loess
A chemical element processed in compounds used as gasoline additives and in dyes, medicines, sanitizers, and brominated vegetable oil, which is found in some soft drinks.
What is bromine
The area of southwest Arkansas that, years ago, was covered by waters from what is now the Gulf of America. The area is rich in bauxite, clay, salt, and petroleum deposits as well as pine forests.
What is Gulf Coastal Plain