Geography Study Guide

An aspect of a place or area that derives from the physical enviroment.

• Physical Feature

• Pollution

• Metropolitan Area

• Mental map

• Lithosphere

A course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth's physical system

• plate tectonics

• place

• physical process

• Materials

An area with distinctive human and physical characteristics

• Location

• Place

• Map

• Materials

The theory that Earth's surface is composed of rigid slabs or plates.

• Plate tectonics

• pollution

• map

• place

The direct or indirect process resulting from human action by which any part of the environment is made potentially or actually unhealthy

• location

• mental map

• map

• Pollution

The number of individuals occupying an area derived from dividing the number of people by the area they occupy

• nation

• migration

• Population density

• megapolis

A bar graph showing the distribution by gender and age of a country's population

• migration

• Population Pyramid

• population density

• lithosphere

The uppermost layer of the solid Earth including soil, land, and geological formations

• Lithosphere

• map

• materials

• place

The position of a point on Earth's surface expressed by means of a grid

• Natural hazard

• Ocean currents

• Lithosphere

• Location

A graphic representation of a portion of Earth that is usually drawn to scale on a flat surface

• place

• Mental Map

• Map

• Location