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What words do we use in geography?.  Climate:  Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.

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1 What words do we use in geography?

2  Climate:

3  Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.

4  Weather:

5  Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.  Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation.

6  Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.  Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation.  Topography:

7  Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.  Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation.  Topography: The use of details on maps or charts to show natural or manmade features of the Earth.

8  Culture:

9  Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.

10  Continental Drift:

11  Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.  Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth.

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13  Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.  Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth.  Economy:

14  Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.  Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth.  Economy: The management of resources in a community, country, or region.

15  Global Warming:

16  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.

17  Nonrenewable Resources:

18  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.  Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain

19  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.  Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain  Renewable Resources:

20  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.  Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain  Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices.

21  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.  Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain  Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices.  Sustainable Resources:

22  Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.  Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain  Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices.  Sustainable Resources: A resource harvested or used in such a way that it is not depleted or permanently damaged.

23  Population Density:

24  Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land.

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26  Rural:

27  Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land.  Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density.

28  Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land.  Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density.  Urban:

29  Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land.  Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density.  Urban: Of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city.  Scale: On a map, relative size by which distance is shown. Ex. 1 inch = 100 miles.

30  The practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man- made features of a place or region, especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations.


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