Geography Quarter 3 Vocabulary

Original documents or artifacts that provide firsthand information about a specific event or time period.

• Culture
• Religion
• Primary sources
• Natural resources

documents, texts, images, and objects created by someone who did not directly witness the event or time period.

• National identities
• Secondary sources
• Culture
• Lumber

Physical features such as mountains, rivers, or deserts that act as obstacles and limit movement or access.

• Natural land barriers
• Secondary sources
• Culture
• Cultural characteristics

A shared sense of belonging and loyalty to a particular nation, often based on common language, history, culture, or political values.

• Land use
• National identities
• Secondary sources
• Primary sources

The way humans change and use land for various purposes, such as agriculture, homes, businesses, or conservation.

• Region
• Land use
• Cultural characteristics
• National identities

Materials or substances found in nature that have economic value and can be used by humans, such as minerals, forests, water, or fertile soil.

• Natural resources
• Cultural characteristics
• mining
• Agriculture

The practice of growing plants and raising animals for people to use.

• Lumber Industry
• Natural resources
• Agriculture
• Land use

Wood that has been processed into beams, planks, or other forms for construction, furniture, or other purposes.

• Culture
• Physical characteristics
• Lumber Industry
• Lumber

The extraction of valuable minerals from the Earth's surface, often involving drilling, blasting, and processing.

• Religion
• Mining
• Land use
• Secondary sources

Observable traits or features of a person, place, or thing, such as size, shape, color, texture, or topography.

• Physical characteristics
• Natural land barriers
• Mining
• Secondary sources