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Vocabulary
On The Map
Human Interactions
Physical or Human Characteristics
100
These resources can be made again by people or natures, such as water, trees, or wind.
What are renewable resources?
100
The exact location of a place is called _____ location.
What is absolute location?
100
These are areas with a large population, living close together, like in a city.
What are urban areas?
100
Ditches dug to irrigate crops—physical or human characteristic?
What is a human characteristic?
200
These resources cannot be made again by people—such as oil, coal, and minerals.
What are nonrenewable resources?
200
The position (or location) of one place when compared to other places
What is relative location?
200
These are areas with a smaller population, more spread out, like farming areas.
What are rural areas?
200
Trees cut down to make room for crops, homes, or roads
What are human characteristics?
300
This is a place where land drops sharply, causing waterfalls and rapids.
What is a fall line?
300
This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
Most people in the U.S. live in this type of area—urban or rural.
What are urban areas?
300
Roads built to travel from place to place
What are human characteristics?
400
These are features made by nature, such as mountains, rivers, and lakes.
What are physical features or physical characteristics?
400
Some maps show these features made by nature—such as mountains and rivers.
What are physical features or physical characteristics?
400
These are 3 examples of how climate affects the people who live in a place.
What are the clothes they wear, the types of activities they do, and the types of jobs they have?
400
Rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams
What are physical characteristics?
500
This is the plant life that grows naturally in a place.
What is natural vegetation?
500
Some maps show these features made by humans—such as roads, bridges, and buildings.
What are human features or human characteristics?
500
Identify 4 ways in which people modify, or change, the environment in order to live on the land and meet their needs.
What is digging ditches to irrigate crops, building bridges to cross rivers, cutting down trees to build houses, and making roads to travel from place to place?
500
Mountains, plains, and rich soil
What are physical characteristics?