Geography 6th grade Word Scramble
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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 |
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