US in Spatial Terms Vocabulary #2

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

• Transportation Network

• Special Purpose Maps

• Human Characteristics

• Population

Features on the Earth's surface that were made by people.

• Transportation Network

• Population

• Human Characteristics

• Special Purpose Maps

The height of a place above sea level.

• Precipitation

• Elevation

• Climate

• Temperature

Maps that help you focus on certain details such as climate or natural resources.

• Population Density

• Metropolitan Area

• Special Purpose Maps

• Temperature

Water that falls to the ground as rain or snow.

• Climate

• Temperature

• Elevation

• Precipitation

The usual weather conditions in a certain place

• Temperature

• Climate

• Population Density

• Region

The number of people that live in a place

• Population

• Population Density

• Human Characteristics

• Metropolitan Area

How hot or cold the air is

• Climate

• Metropolitan Area

• Region

• Temperature

A large city, plus any smaller cities, towns, or suburbs that are around it.

• Movement

• Economic Activities

• Metropolitan Area

• Region

The number of people living per square mile of an area

• Population

• Human Characteristics

• Population Density

• Movement