Social Studies : Chapter Two : Our Natural Environment flash cards

Set: Social Studies : Chapter Two : Our Natural Environment

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Term	Definition
Region	area sharing common physical or cultural features that make it different from other areas.
Political map	map that outlines various political boundaries of various countries (often including provinces/states). These maps may also present capital cities, bodies of water, and a location system (longitude/latitude).
Street map	maps that are used to determine driving direction. These maps portray street names, buildings, parks, and bridges, usually locations that people are trying to find/locate. Streets maps may also contain grid systems consisting of a number/letter code to determine a locality.
Topographic map	a detailed map showing physical and cultural features and the elevation, or height, of the land.
Locator map	shows the position of one small geographic entity inside a larger entity. There are many ways of graphically depicting such a configuration. The two primary types of locator maps are the area locator map and the point locator map. Point maps show a very small entity in a larger entity (ex: a city in a country), while an area locator map shoes a small entity that covers a significant portion of a larger entity (ex: a province in a state)
Scale	measurement that relates distance on a map to actual distance on the ground.
Physical distance	the measured distance between two points
Time distance	the time it takes to get between given points.
Mountain	a mass of land that is significantly higher than the surrounding area.
Upland	an area that generally has an elevation of 100 m to 400 m.
Folding	a bending of the earth's crust to form physical features such as mountains.
Canadian Shield	a vast area of rock that stretches across central Canada. It takes up almost half of Canada's surface.
Fiord	a long, narrow inlet of the sea, bordered by steep mountain slopes.
River	a long narrow body of water that flows in a channel from high to low land and empties into a body of water such as an ocean or a lake.
Lake	a large body of water surrounded by land.
Pond	a fairly small body of still water.
Wetlands	waterlogged areas that are neither solid ground nor open water, including bogs, fens, swamps, and marches.
Bogs	wetlands composed mainly of peat, featuring mosses, low shrubs, and sparse black spruce or tamarack.
Swamps	wetlands occurring where water collects in pools, and containing mature trees such as black spruce.
Marshes	wetlands either seasonally or permanently covered by water; stands of sedges, grasses, and rushes are divided by channels that carry off water very slowly.
Ocean	a very large body of salt water; includes the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, and the Arctic.
Appalachian Mountains	mountain and upland systems of Newfoundland, which extend across the rest of the Atlantic region and into the united states as far south as the state of Georgia.
Relief map	a map that depicts land configuration, gives a three-dimensional effect.