Unit 1 Vocab Quiz Study

a geographic border between two regions, where rivers produce waterfalls

• Barrier Islands

• Appalachian Mountains

• Fall Line

• Brasstown Bald

What is a physical feature?

• a natural landform or body of water on Earth

• a road that goes through specific towns and cities

• I specific area on the earth where people live

• the day to day temperature of a region

barrier islands are what?

• islands that form a protective barrier to a warmer climate

• islands that form a protective barrier between the ocean and the mainland

• islands that form a protective barrier between the coast and the swamp

• islands that form a protective barrier between the ocean and river systems

what is a plateau?

• a regional dish made popular by social media

• a natural body of water that is landlocked

• a large, elevated and flat piece of land

• a piece of mainland that juts out into the ocean

the height of an object above a given level, usually sea level

• elevation

• appalachian plateau

• lake lanier

• fall line

one of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator or by the prime meridian

• border

• plateau

• elevation

• hemisphere

what is climate?

• the type of landforms in an area

• the long-term trends in weather elements and atmospheric conditions

• the long-term trends in population growth in an area

• the short-term trends in atmospheric changes affecting landforms

a measure of a location’s distance north or south of the equator

• latitude

• longitude

• prime meridian

• elevation

the study of Earth's surface and climate, and of human activity, and of the interactions between them

• physics

• geology

• geography

• biology

an area with similar geographic characteristics that set it apart from surrounding areas

• geographic feature

• geographic region

• geographic plateau

• geographic plain