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Geography 6th grade
Final Information
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | The art and science of cultivating land for growing crops (farming) or raising livestock (ranching) |
| Biome | An area of the planet which can be classified according to the plant and animal life in it |
| Boreal Forest | Land covered by evergreen trees in cool, northern latitudes. Also called taiga |
| Drainage Basin | An entire river system, or an area drained by a river and its tributaries. Also called a watershed. |
| Fjord | Long, narrow ocean inlet between steep slopes |
| Glacier | mass of ice the moves slowly over land |
| Hydroelectric Power | usable energy generated by moving water converted to electricity |
| Latitude | distance north or south of the equator |
| Lowland | slow-flowing river ecosystems usually found in lower altitudes |
| Natural Resource | A material that humans take from the natural environment to survive, to satisfy their needs or to trade with others |
| Plain | Flat, smooth area at a low elevation |
| Territory | Land an animal, human, or government protects from intruders |
| Tributary | Stream that feeds, or flows, into a larger stream |
| Tundra | Cold, treeless region in Arctic and Antarctic climates |
| Vegetation | All the plant life of a specific place |
| Border | invisible line that divides 2 places |
| Region | an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. |
| Upstream | moving or situated in the opposite direction from that in which a stream or river flows; nearer to the source. |
| Downstream | situated or moving in the direction in which a stream or river flows. |
| Cultural Identity | Cultural identity is often defined as the identity of a group, culture or an individual, influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture |
| Language Family | A group of languages with a common ancestry and similar words. (Indo-European is the largest language family.) |
| group | 2 or more people or things that share a common interest or have something in common |