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Geography Unit Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Location | The exact location of place on earth.The most common way is to identify the location using latitude and longitude coordinates. |
Relative Location | The position of something relative to another landmark. |
Human-Environment Interaction | The relationships between people and their environment; how people depend on and adapt to the environment and change it. |
Natural Disasters | Any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences,as avalanche,earthquakes, ,forest fire, hurricane,lightning, etc |
Settlement Patterns | Where and how people chose to settle. |
Population Density | A measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. |
Per Capita | Per each person |
Distribution | The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area. |
Sustainable | Able to be maintained at a certain rate at a level; able to be upheld or defended |
Urbanization | The process of making an area more urban* (city) |
Barriers | Obstacle that prevents movement or access. |
Corridors | Passage or pathway that allows movement |
Migration | Movement from one pant of something to another. |
Immigration | The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
Emigration | The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad. |
Agriculture | The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, and other products. |