Mapping
What part of a map tells you what symbols, lines, and colors mean?
Legend/Key
What landform wanders through land, cities, states, and provides water for areas around it?
River
What climate zone is very cold all year with permanent ice and snow and no plant life?
Ice Cap
What vegetation zone has grasses and scattered trees adapted to a tropical wet and dry climate?
Tropical Grassland
What is a resource that is not easily replaced called?
Nonrenewable Resource
What are the directions that can be found on a compass?
North, South, East, West
What is an area where water flows over a vertical drop or series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river called?
Waterfall
What climate zone has warm summers, cool winters, and rainfall all year long?
Marine West Coast
What vegetation zone has treeless plain with grassses, mosses, and shrubs adapted to a cold climate?
Tundra
What is a resource called that is easy to replace?
Renewable Resource
What type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, and other natural landscapes?
Physical Map
What is a piece of land that is surrounded by water called?
Island
What climate zones temperature and precipitation vary with latitude and vegetation?
Highlands
What vegetation zone has evergreen Trees with needles and cones?
Coniferous Forest
Fossil Fuels take a long time to form, and this makes them what type of resource?
Nonrenewable
What type of map shows borders of areas like countries, states, and cities?
Political Map
What is the landform called that is a fertile spot in the desert where water is found?
Oasis
What climate zone has hot, dry summers, and cool, dry winters?
Semiarid
What vegetation zone has short and tall grasses adapted to cool climates?
Temperate Grasslands
What is it called when we protect a natural resource so that it doesn't run out?
Conserving Resources
What item on a map shows the ratio between the distance on a map and the distance in real life?
Map Scale
What is the landform called that is a group of many islands?
Archipelago
What climate zone is hot and rainy all year long?
Tropical Wet
That vegetation zone has trees with broad, flat leaves that are shed before winter
Deciduous Forest
What is heat transferred from beneath the surface of Earth and used to produce energy for human use called?
Geothermal Energy