TCI Ch. 2 Thematic Maps

Continents, mountains, canyons, and oceans are all examples of....

A comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water.

Land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent.

The land near a shore.

How do you determine the distance of the U.S. from the northern boundary to the southern boundary?

Which of the following will you find on a map that shows physical features?

An inlet of the sea or other body of water usually smaller than a gulf.

A vent in the crust of the earth from which usually molten or hot rock and steam escape.

The average number of people who live in a unit of area, such as a square mile. How crowded an area is.

What do geographers call an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas?

Which term means the pattern of weather over a long period of time?

What kind of information is shown on this map of North Africa?

A deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it.

Any action that relates to the marketing, buying, and selling of goods and services.

The pattern of weather over a long period of time.

A chain of rocks or coral or a ridge of sand at or near the surface of water.

A stream feeding a larger stream or a lake.

What does an economic activity map of a country show?

What kind of information about Nome, Alaska, is shown on the graph?

An extensive area of level or rolling treeless country.

A series of mountains or mountain ridges closely related in position and direction

All the plants and trees in an area.

What are coal, iron, uranium, and petroleum?

A map that shows population density is a type of...

Any natural characteristic of Earth's surface, such as landforms and bodies of water.