Unit 2 Vocabulary and Regions

Terms used in comparing locations with each other or with something else.

• Communications

• Geographic Features

• Cardinal Directions

• Relative Terms

The points on a compass giving directions

• Cardinal Directions

• Relative Terms

• Exports

• Geographic Features

The natural border between the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions, where waterfalls prevent further travel on the river

• Fall Line

• Peninsula

• Bordering

• Plateau

Area of elevated land that is flat on top

• Cardinal Directions

• Plateau

• Fall Line

• Peninsula

A piece of land bordered by water on three sides

• Plateau

• Fall Line

• Peninsula

• Geographic Features

System or means of transporting someone or something (people or goods) by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

• Transportation System

• Economic Growth

• Industries

• Exports

The condition of a region as regards to its increase of the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth

• Economic Growth

• Transportation System

• Exports

• Geographic Features

The telling or exchanging of information or news

• Industries

• Communications

• Products

• Exports

The selling and sending out of goods or services to other countries.

• Exports

• Industries

• Products

• Geographic Features

Forming a frontier with another state or the boundary between two regions.

• Bordering

• Fall Line

• Plateau

• Relative Terms