An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring distance north or south of the equator

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An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring distance north or south of the equator. Latitude. The development and the growth of cities. Urbanization. A person who starts and runs a new business. Entrepreneur. To save discarded items, like cans or bottles so they can be used again. Recycle. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring

distance north or south of the equator

Latitude

The development and the growth of cities

Urbanization

A person who starts and runs a new

business

Entrepreneur

To save discarded items, like cans or bottles so

they can be used again

Recycle

Area where people share the same beliefs

and customs

CulturalRegion

A material found in nature that CAN be

replaced, such as forests.

Renewable Resource

A direction halfway between two cardinal

directions;NW,NE,SW,SE

Intermediate Directions

That which dirties the environment.

Pollution

People with the same customs and language,

often having a common history.

Ethnic Group

A first hand account of an event or an artifact.

Primary Source

An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring

distance east or west of the prime meridian.

Longitude

Variety;differences

Diversity

A map that highlights Earth’s natural

features.

Physical Map

The protection and careful use of natural

resources.

Conservation

The word describing a central or national

government.

Federal

Any line of longitude east or west of Earth’s

prime meridian.

Meridian

A person who leaves one country to live in

another.

Immigrant

A person who buys and uses goods and

services.

Consumer

Beliefs or ideals that guide the way people

live.

Values

A fuel such as oil, natural gas and coal that is formed from the

remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.

Fossil Fuel

One of the four main points of the compass; north, south, east and

west.

Cardinal Directions

Of the city

Urban

All the surroundings in which people, plants

and animals live.

Environment

A person who studies the past.

Historian

A plan of government. In the US it is the supreme

law and plan of the national government.

Constitution

A line of latitude

Parallel

All the living and nonliving things in a

certain area

Ecosystem

An account of the past based on information from primary

sources and written by someone who was not an eyewitness to

those events.

Secondary Source

A map that shows the boundaries of states and

countries.

Political Map

Of the countryside

Rural

A form of government where people choose

representatives to run the government.

Democratic Republic

Meridian from which the longitude east and west is

measured. It passes through Greenwich, England and it’s

longitude is 0 degrees.

Prime Meridian

An economic system in which people can own property and

businesses and are free to decide what to make, how much to

produce and what price to charge.

Free Enterprise

A material found in nature that cannot be replaced, such as coal,

oil and natural gas.

Nonrenewable Resource

A person born in a country or who becomes

a member of that country by law.

Citizen

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