Unit 2 Vocab 2

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

• human characteristics

• transportation network

• elevation

• population

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

• precipitation

• temperature

• climate

• elevation

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

• special purpose maps

• population

• region

• human characteristics

the usual weather conditions in a certain place

• temperature

• climate

• percipitation

• population

the height of an area above sea level

• elevation

• climate

• region

• population

maps that help you focus on certain details such as climate

• special purpose map

• transportation network

• movement

• population density

the number of people that live in a place

• population density

• movement

• population

• elevation

one of the 5 themes of geography, an area with common geographic features

• metropolitan area

• movement

• population

• region

one of the 5 themes of geography, explains how and why people, ideas, and goods go from place to place

• region

• economic activities

• movement

• population

the number of people living per unit of an area

• population density

• population

• region

• climate