Unit One Geography Vocabulary

A map that shows features such a cities, towns, counties, states, countries, etc.

• Physical Map

• Political Map

• Peninsula

• Climate Map

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

• Culture

• Agriculture

• Peninsula

• Climate

The beliefs, traditions, laws, art, food, and ways of living that a group of people share.

• Climate

• Agriculture

• Migration

• Culture

Anything that causes people to move away from a place.

• Migration

• Push Factor

• Population Distribution

• Pull Factor

Anything that causes people to move to a place.

• Migration

• Push Factor

• Population Distribution

• Pull Factor

A map that shows features (mountains, rivers, deserts, etc.).

• Political Map

• Migration

• Physical Map

• Peninsula

Long term average weather in an area; the average precipitation and temperature.

• Culture

• Climate

• Migration

• Agriculture

Farming and livestock

• Arable Land

• Agriculture

• Cluture

• Migration

When a group of people or animals moves from one area to another.

• Push Factor

• Migration

• Population Distribution

• Pull Factor

The lines that run North and South along the surface of the earth; they measure how far a place is from the Prime Meridian.

• Longitude Lines

• Equator

• Latitude Lines

• Migration