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Geography notes for Franklin Acdemy NC
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| peninsula | Land surrounded by three sides/ | |
| isthmus | narow strip of land connecting larger strips of land | |
| archipelago | a chain of islands | |
| gulf | an area of water apartially enclosed by land | |
| archeology | the study of artifacts | |
| occupied | land conqured by another country | |
| tectonic plates | large blocks of rock underneath earth's surface | |
| distribution map | shows the location density people crops etc. | |
| arable | suitable for farming | |
| elevation | hight above sea level | |
| Political Map | shows manmade boudaries | |
| civilization | a society with government with culture and written records | |
| artifacts | the remains of human's work | |
| percipitation | rain sleet show hail | |
| meteoroligist | scientists that study weather | |
| subsistencial farming | small-scale family agricutre | |
| climate | weather in a place for a long time | |
| Subcontinent | A continent under a nother continent | |
| Monsoon | Seasonal winds that bring heavy rains | |
| Tropics | Region between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn | |
| Strait | A narrow passage of h2o connecting two larger bodies of water |