| Term | Definition |
|---|
| agriculture | production of plants and animals |
| capital | the city or town where the official government is in a country or state |
| chronology | the order in which past events occurred |
| climate | weather averaged over a series of years |
| culture | the beliefs and behaviors of a group of people |
| civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached |
| diverse | a wide variety |
| economy | managing resources in a community |
| environment | social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or population |
| ethnicity | identity with a particular racial, national or cultural group |
| geography | the study of maps of the world |
| hemisphere | half of the terrestrial globe |
| import | to bring in merchandise from a foreign country |
| export | to ship merchandise to a foreign country |
| latitude | the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface |
| longitude | the angular distance west or east from the prime meridian of a point on the earth's surface |
| key | explanatory table of symbols used on a map or chart |
| border | the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary |
| migrate | to move from place to place |
| immigrate | to enter and settle in a foreign country or region |
| natural resources | materials that aren't created |
| physical characteristic | a physical quality or feature |
| human characteristic | a quality or feature used to describe people, their religion, language, etc. |
| urban | characteristic of a city or town |
| rural | characteristic of the country |
| scarcity | insufficiency or shortness of supply |
| surplus | something that remains above what is used or needed |
| vegetation | all the plants or plant life of a place |
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