Vocabulary
Latin word which means "Earth"
What is geo?
A natural feature of the earth's surface.
What are land forms?
A shared cultural heritage or identity based on common language, culture, or nationality.
What is ethnicity?
This is a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly.
What is a mountain?
This country is made up of 50 states.
What is the United States?
Latin word which means "to write about"
What is Graphy?
The weather condition in an area in general or over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This includes customs, languages, material items.
What is culture?
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to a sea, a lake or other such stream that flows over land.
What is a river?
This country is known for it's olive trees and fig trees?
What is Palestine?
This subject focuses on how people & cultures are distributed around the earth.
What is human geography?
materials from the Earth that are used to support life and meet people's needs.
What are natural resources?
The movement of people from one place to another, which can be voluntary (e.g., for work) or forced (e.g., due to conflict).
What is migration?
An area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.
What is a desert?
This country is known for it's pyramids.
What is Egypt?
This is the study of people and their relationship to their environment.
What is geography?
All the physical surroundings on Earth, living & nonliving that co-exist.
What is environment?
The change of the natural landscape by human activity, reflecting cultural practices and values.
What is cultural landscape?
A low are of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
What is a valley?
This country is known for it's maple syrup.
What is Canada?
This subject focuses on the "bodily" environment & the natural process of the earth.
What is physical geography?
Plants and the ground cover they provide.
What is vegetation?
The number of people living per unit of area, typically per square kilometer or square mile.
What is population density?
A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
What is an ocean?
This country is known for the longest wall in the world.
What is China?