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- Environment
- Refers to all of the surroundings and the conditions that affect living things, such as water, soil, and air
- Geographic Profile
- An outline or summary that includes the physical and human features of an area
- Human Settlements
- Refer to the communities founded and developed by people, such as villages, towns, and cities: or simply a new place where people begin to live.
- Map Grid
- A crisscross network of meridian and parallels on a map or globe which allows someone to locate any place exactly on the earth's surface.
- Suburb
- A residential district located on the outskirts of a city
- Rural
- It describes a countryside used chiefly for agriculture, either now or in the recent past
- Geographic
- Refers the details of a specific region
- Coordinates
- They refer to the system of latitude and longitude to precisely locate places on Earth's surface
- Relative Location
- The position of a place in relation to another place
- Connection
- Refers to a relation between things or events (as in the case of one thing or event causing the other).
- Exact Location
- Tells you exactly where a place is.
- Location
- Refers to particular place on the surface of the earth
- Cultural or Human Features
- Those things in and around a place that were made, built, or brought there by people
- Natural or Physical Environment
- All the things in and around a place that were not made (or brought in) by people
- Physical Features
- The natural characteristic of the earth's surface (river, mountain, lake, forest)