| A | B |
|---|
| Climate | Temperature and precipitation over a long period of time |
| Vegetation | plant life (not crops or other forms of human agriculture) |
| Population Density | The number of people within a given square mile or square kilometer |
| Land Use | How people use the land to make a living |
| Economic Activity | How people use natural resources and land to make money |
| Temperate | Mild Climate |
| Arid | Dry Climate |
| Tropical | Wet and Hot Climate |
| Artic Climate | Cold Climate |
| Highland Climate | Cold, depending on elevation and latitude |
| Deciduous Trees (vegetation) | Trees whose leaves fall during the winter such as maple and oak |
| Coniferous Trees (vegetation | evergreen trees that have pine cones and needles such as pine trees and firs |
| Broadleaf Evergreen Forest | Rainforest |
| Desert | Dry with few plants |
| Desert Scrub | Dry with a few short bushes and small plants |
| urbanization | the movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in growth of urban areas |
| natural resource | any useful material found in nature |
| urban | cities |
| rural | country, countryside |
| rural decline | growing poverty, poor economic conditions in the countryside |
| migration | movement |
| standard of living | overall level of comfort and well-being of a country |
| spatial inequality | unequal distribution of wealth or resources |
| suburbs | the area immediately outside a city |
| metropolitan area | includes the city and its surrounding suburbs |
| latitude | lines that run horizontal and are parallel to the Equator |
| longitude | imaginary lines that run up and down the globe that intersect at the poles |
| equator | The starting line of latitude |
| Prime Meridian | The startling line of longitude |
