Cultural geography

Americans live in

• dense urban areas

• urban areas (82%)

• god's command given to mankind in gen. 1:28 to exercise dominion over the world by wisely using the resources god has placed here.

• beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

Dew point

• The temperature at which condensation begins

• Relation to the continental divide

• The longest river in the United States

• The water vapor density

Demography

• study of human populations

• study of how humans interact

• due to limited resources

• study of maps

Definition: states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative

• mackenzie river

• snow belt

• weathering

• sunbelt

Term: 2 categories of populated areas

• dense urban areas

• International and national

• rural and urban

• physical and human

Definition: a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

• Aquifer

• Reservoir

• Groundwater

• Water

What are exports?

• Products and Services imported from other nations

• Domestic goods and services

• Items exchanged within a country

• Goods and Services sold to other countries

What is the atmosphere?

• the envelope of gases surrounding the earth

• the outermost layer of the earth's crust

• the underground network of caves and tunnels

• the layer of ice covering the earth's poles

What is the meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England?

• Equator

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

• Longitude

Technology is the:

• most prominent of the 10 language families

• prime vehicle of globalization

• foundation of society

• study of human populations