What is slope?

At a continent-continent convergence,

One of the brightest comets of the 20th century was comet hyakutake, which passed close to the sun in early 1996. the orbital period of this comet is estimated to be about 30,000 years. find the semi-major axis of this comet’s orbit. compare it to the average sun-pluto distance and to the distance to alpha centauri, the nearest star to the sun, which is 4.3 light-years distant.

The map above shows where people live in the united states. areas that are darker blue are areas where people live close together. areas that are lighter colors are places where people live farther apart. as a geographer, if you were to study where people live and why they choose to live in these places, which of the six essential elements of geography would you be using?