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___________ examines the Earth's natural environments such as landforms, water features, atmosphere, plant life, etc.

• physical geography

• B

The Earth's four spheres (atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere) make up the _________ and includes all biological, chemical, and physical conditions that affect life.

• environment

• B

__________ is the weather patterns over an extended period of time and heavily influenced by latitude, atmospheric pressure, wind belts, and ocean currents.

• climate

• B

_____________ are the physical materials that make up part of the Earth that humans need for survival or economic activity.

• natural resources

• B

_____________________ refers to the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.

• topography

• b

the distribution and characteristics of the world's people.

• human geography

• b

a subfield of Human Geography that examines how humans divide themselves into governments and interact.

• political geography

• b

a division of human geography concerned with distribution, composition, growth, and movements of people or animals.

• population geography

• b

the movement of persons from one country or locality to another usually based on push and pull factors

• migration

• b

a subfield of Human Geography that examines all the features of a population's way of life

• cultural geography

• b