Chapter One Vocabulary

4. The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition.
9. The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.
10. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian.
11. Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust.
13. The science of making maps.
14. The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible.
16. A chain of communication that connects places.
17. An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
20. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.
22. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator.
23. Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space.
24. The scientific study of ecosystems.
27. A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians.
28. A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface or a portion of it.
30. A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact.
32. Composed of living organisms.
33. The physical character of a place.
34. The position of anything on Earth's surface.

1. The physical gap or interval between two objects.
2. The region from which innovative ideas originate.
3. The long-term average weather condition at a particular location.
5. All of the water on and near Earth's surface.
6. The spread of something over a given area.
7. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
8. The location of a place relative to another place.
12. Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole.
15. The sustainable management of a natural resource.
18. A system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map.
19. The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.
20. The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
21. The name given to a portion of Earth's surface.
25. The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
26. The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
29. A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
31. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles.