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Geography Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What imaginary line separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | Equator |
| Countries with a lot of manufacturing are | Industrialized countries |
| Infrastructure | The services and facilities that enable a country, city, or other type of community to function smoothly. Typically infrastructure includes bridges, roads, hospitals, prisons, schools, and other facilities residents need for daily life. |
| Nonrenewable Resources | Items such as coal, iron, and petroleum that cannot be replaced. They can be stored, but they take thousands or millions of years to form. |
| Renewable Resources | Items that can be replaced. They include plants and animals, which reproduce, Most renewable resources cannot be stored for future use. |
| Rural | Area in the countryside (outside of a city) |
| Suburban | Residential area outside a city |
| Thematic Maps | Show how a particular feature, such as population, rainfall, or a natural resource is distributed over an area. These maps are used to study overall patterns. |
| Transportation Corridors | A path where at least one main line of transportation (road, rail, or canal) has been built to improve movement form one area to another. |
| Transportation Bariers | A geographic feature that prevents or slows transportation (rocks along roads or waterfalls along rivers) |
| Urban | Area within a city |
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