US in Spatial Terms Part 2 Vocab

Features on the Earth's surface that were made by people

• Human Characteristics

• Population

• Economic Activities

• Special Purpose Maps

A system of roads, railroad lines, shipping routes, and other ways of connecting places

• elevation

• temperature

• transportation network

• population

Maps that help you focus on certain details such as climate or natural resources

• human characteristics

• special purpose maps

• climate

• population density

The height of a place above sea level

• elevation

• climate

• temperature

• population

Water that falls to the ground as rain, snow, etc.

• elevation

• climate

• precepitation

• region

The usual weather conditions in a certain place

• population

• temperature

• elevation

• climate

How hot or cold the air is

• region

• economic activities

• climate

• temperature

The number of people that live in a place

• metropolitan area

• population density

• elevation

• population

The number of people living per unit of an area (for example, per square mile)

• population density

• economic activities

• population

• metropolitan area

a large city plus any smaller cities, towns, or suburbs that are around it

• movement

• metropolitan area

• population density

• economic activities