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What words do we use in geography?
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Climate:
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Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time.
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Weather:
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Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time. Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation.
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Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time. Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation. Topography:
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Climate: Average weather-temperature, wind velocity, precipitation-at a place over time. Weather: The daily temperature, wind, and precipitation. Topography: The use of details on maps or charts to show natural or manmade features of the Earth.
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Culture:
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Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
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Continental Drift:
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Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth.
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Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth. Economy:
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Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Continental Drift: The theory that the continents slowly and constantly move within the earth. Economy: The management of resources in a community, country, or region.
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Global Warming:
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter.
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Nonrenewable Resources:
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter. Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter. Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain Renewable Resources:
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter. Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices.
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter. Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices. Sustainable Resources:
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Global Warming: The scientific theory that the earth is getting hotter. Nonrenewable Resources: Fuel, such as coal, gas, and natural gas, formed in the earth from plant or animal remain Renewable Resources: One that is capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound business practices. Sustainable Resources: A resource harvested or used in such a way that it is not depleted or permanently damaged.
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Population Density:
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Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land.
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Rural:
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Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land. Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density.
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Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land. Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density. Urban:
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Population Density: The number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of land. Rural: Open land usually used for agriculture; the country. An area with a low pop. density. Urban: Of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city. Scale: On a map, relative size by which distance is shown. Ex. 1 inch = 100 miles.
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The practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man- made features of a place or region, especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations.
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