environment 2
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- environment
- surroundings like physical, social, cultural conditions
- absolute location
- exact pisiton of a place on earths in expressed in latitude and longitude
- relative location
- location of a place in relation to other places
- place
- a geographic location, usually a town or city, its physical and human characteristics
- human-environment interaction
- how people use and adopt or change their surrounding and how the phusical environment often affects humans
- regions
- an area that is unified by one or more common characteristics
- plain
- a landform that generally is level
- fault
- is a weak place in the earth crust
- aquifer
- an underground water reserviour
- plateau
- a broad level landform that has steeps cliffs called escarment on least one side and high elevation than the surround
- savanna
- a grassland and scattered trees and drought resistant undergrowth
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- What is Texas lake water often used for?
- drinking water
- Where do almost all rivers in Texas flow to?
- Gulf of Mexico, southeast
- What are springs?
- where aquifers meeet to the surface
- What is the rich soil in Texas most used for?
- farming and ranching
- What does the theme of geography, movement, refer to?
- people, ideas, goods
- What is an escarpment?
- Steep clift