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What is a thematic map?
This map presents information related to one topic.
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What is a population density map? What is Australia?
This map measures how crowded a place is and is calculated by dividing the population by the area. ______ (which continent excluding Anarctica) has the lowest population density?
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What is the Arid climate zone?
This climate zone is hot and dry all year with very little rain.
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What are climate, physical feature, and vegetation maps?
These are the 3 physical maps that we learned about in class.
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What are natural resources?
This determine the economic activity that takes place in an area.
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What is a map legend?
Other than the title, this shows what kind of information is on a map.
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What is an economic activity map?
This map shows patterns of land use and the way people produce, buy, and sell goods and services.
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What is the Tundra climate zone?
Alaska would be in this climate zone.
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What are economic activity, political, and population density maps?
These are the 3 human geography maps that we learned about in class.
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What are climate, sunlight, soil, and elevation?
These are 2 thing that affect types of vegetation that grows in a place.
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What is commercial farming?
This is what you call raising crops or livestock to sell.
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What is a physical feature map?
This map shows natural characteristics of Earth's surface, such as landforms and bodies of water.
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What is humid continental?
This climate zone would be the most pleasant climate in which to live. Tundra, Arid, Humid Continental, or Tropical Wet.
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What are natural resources?
How people use land depends on ___________.
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What are latitude and elevation?
These are 2 things that affects the kind of climate that a place has. This is how.
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What is a region?
This is an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas.
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What is a political map?
This map shows the boundaries between countries, cities, and states.
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What is broadleaf evergreen forest; What is ice cap?
__________ vegetation zone has tall trees with large leaves that remain green all year long. ______ vegetation zone has permanent ice and snow; no plant life.
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What is a political map?
The map that you would use to find out all the states that border Tennessee is ______________.
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What are climate, amount of sunlight, elevation, and richness of the soil?
These are 3 things that determine the type of vegetation grown in a place.
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What are natural resources?
________ are things found naturally in the environment that is used to meet people's needs.
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What is a climate map? What is a vegetation map?
_______ shows the average precipitation and temperature of a place. __________ shows the kinds of plants grown in a place.
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What is Columbus; What is Garrison?
Which of these would have the highest population density and which would have the lowest?
Garrison, Portsmouth, Columbus, Huntington? |
What is a political map?
If you were wanting to find a place to live where you would have a lot of privacy, you would use a _______ map.
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What is having the same characteristics such as economic activities, climate, vegetation, population density?
This is what makes a region a region.
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