World Geography Tier 3 Vocabulary

A map that shows elevation using lines.

• Topographic Map

• Map Projection

• Map Scale

• Political Map

The number of people living in a given area

• Population

• Density

• census

• latitude

Plants of a region are called

• plant life

• fauna

• rainforest

• flora

An under ground formation that holds water is called a

• well

• sink

• aquifer

• cenote

How goods and ideas get from one place to another is called

• Region

• movement

• place

• location

Beliefs, customs and traditions of a specific group of people

• nation

• culture

• movement

• density

The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface.

• Scale

• Projection

• Density

• flora

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic.

• Place

• region

• movement

• human/environment interaction

The position of a place in relation to another place

• Absolute location

• place

• relative location

• movement

A politically organized body of people under a single government

• Place

• Culture

• Nation

• Congress