Unit 1 Map Skills Vocabulary

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates; the natural world

• Orbit

• Environment

• Revolution

A natural feature of the earth's surface like a mountain, ocean, plain, or valley.

• Climate

• Movement

• Landform

An area of land that has common features; can be defined by landforms, languages, governments, or population, the basic units of geography. (Not the bank)

• Regions

• Rotation

• Revolution

The branch of geography dealing with how HUMAN activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.

• Geology

• Natural Resources

• Human Geography

Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, timber, fresh water, fossil fuels, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

• natural resources

• climate

• Human Geography

The branch of geography dealing with natural features such as mountains, other landforms, and bodies of water; what is physically on the earth's surface

• Regions

• Physical Geography

• Biology

This term refers to the position of a place based on its location in relation to other locations. For example, the location of the US Capitol is located about 38 miles southwest of Baltimore.

• Geography

• Movement

• Relative Location

The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

• relative location

• landform

• climate

This is its EXACT place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude. For example, the Empire State Building is located at 40 degrees north (latitude), 74 degrees west (longitude).

• Absolute location

• Relative location

• Environment

the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. (The name of the class we are currently in)

• Psychology

• Geography

• Biography