Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Landforms
Natural Resources
Climate
100
The ______ of a place is where it is in relation to other places on the earth
What is relative location?
100
This is the height of the land above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
This mountain range lies east of the Interior plains.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
100
This type of natural resource is one that can be remade or reused by people or animals.
What is a renewable resource?
100
The amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
200
This circles the earth and is located halfway between the North and South poles.
What is the equator?
200
This is an invisible line that divides the earth into the Western and Eastern hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
200
This is an area of low land that lies along the coast of an ocean.
What is the coastal plains?
200
These are natural substances that are found in rocks. Examples include: Copper, silver, and gold.
What are minerals?
200
This tells us how hot or cold it is in an area. A thermometer is the tool that helps us to measure this.
What is temperature?
300
This is the protecting of natural resources and using them wisely.
What is conservation?
300
Surroundings in which animals and people live.
What is the environment?
300
This is a high, flat area of land.
What is a plateau?
300
These are resources that cannot be replaced or remade? Once they are used up they are gone forever. Oil is an example of this.
What is a non-renewable resource?
300
Name three types of precipitation
What is rain, sleet, and snow?
400
This is the place where a river begins.
What is the source?
400
These are features such as mountains, hills, valleys, and plains that make up the earth's surface.
What are landforms?
400
This river is one of the longest in North America and runs through the middle of the interior plains.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
Name the type of water that sinks beneath the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
400
This is water that falls to the Earth's surface in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
500
This is the time of weather that a place has over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
All of the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
What is industry?
500
There are five great lakes in North America. What are their names?
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior?
500
This is a natural resource that is used in order to make heat or energy.
What is fuel?
500
Name three things that can effect the climate of an area.
What is elevation, landforms, and distance from the equator?
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