Geography

2. The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living
6. group of people that live in the same area
7. An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features
8. The science of making maps
10. The position of anything on Earth's surface
15. The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
17. A movement from one country or region to another

1. The system used to transfer locations from Earth's surface to a flat map
3. half of the earth
4. Characteristics of a specific location
5. A change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map
9. How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
11. The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
12. identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates on a map or GPS
13. The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
14. Earth is divided into 24 zones. Each zone is an one hour time difference from the next and it starts at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich
16. The scientific study of population characteristics.