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- thematic map
- shows climate, vegetation, natural resources, population density, economic activity, historical trends, movement, etc...
- arid climate
- subtype of the dry climates that is extremely dry and little or no vegetation cover.
- decentralization
- the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
- demographic
- related to population balance; N. demography: statistical study of human population
- hemisphere
- One half of the Earth, especially a half north or south of the equator or west or east of the Prime Meridian.
- Tropic of Capricorn
- a line of latitude about 23 degrees South of the equator
- physical geography
- the spatial analysis of all the physical elements and processes that make up the environment: energy, air, water, weather, climate, landforms, soils, animals, plants, microorganisms, and Earth itself
- prime meridian
- line of the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England; starting point for measuring degrees east and west longitude
- export
- To send out goods for sale to other places.
- nationalism
- a pride in nation; nation more important than region
- strait
- A narrow channel or body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
- natural resource
- the elements from the earth that are not made by people but can be used by them for food, feul, or other necessities
- Tropic of Cancer
- a line of latitude about 23 degrees North of the equator
- raw material
- A natural substance, like cotton or wood, from which goods are made.
- assimilation
- a process by which ethnic and/or racial distinctions between groups disappear because one group is absorbed into another's group culture or because two cultures blend together to form a new cultural system
- flood plain
- flat land near the edge of rivers formed by mud and slit deposited by floods
- levee
- A wall or barrier built to contain the flow of water or to keep out flood waters
- adaptation
- A characteristic, or behavior, or any inherited trait that makes a species able to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
- meridian
- an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
- climate region
- a broad area of earth with the same climate