Cardinal Directions
Vocabulary Lesson pg 2-10
Vocabulary Lesson pg. 17-33
Vocabulary pg 40-51
Miscellaneous
100
The direction that is closest to Mrs. Cress' desk.
What is East?
100
The customs and beliefs of families and communities and the ways they made a living.
What is culture?
100
When a place has a particular weather most often year after year.
What is climate?
100
Something found in nature that people can use. It can include soil, water, minerals, and vegetation.
What is natural resources?
100
The exact location of a place on Earth.
What is absolute location?
200
The direction that you will go to get to the school playground from the lunchroom.
What is west?
200
The past and present are linked together through this.
What is history?
200
Physical features on the Earth's surface, such as plains, mountains, hills, and valleys.
What are landforms?
200
A resource that cannot be made again by nature or people.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
200
Lines of latitude are also called this.
What are parallels?
300
The direction that is near the green bookshelf in the classroom.
What is southeast?
300
Learning about places,the study of the Earth's surface and the way people use it.
What is geography?
300
An area at or near the foot of a mountain.
What is a piedmont?
300
A resource that can be made again by nature or by people.
What is a renewable resource?
300
Imaginary lines on a globe that run north and south.
What are lines of longitude?
400
This is where a lot of the cold winds come from.
What is north?
400
The system of leaders and laws that helps people live together in their community, state, or country.
What is government?
400
A stream or river that flows into another larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
400
When a place is compared to one or more other places on the Earth.
What is relative location?
400
An area or region that people often live in nearby a large city.
What is a suburban?
500
Our classroom clock and door is near this direction.
What is northwest?
500
When the environment affects people and their surroundings they have to do this to live.
What is adapt?
500
The height of the land in relation to sea level.
What is elevation?
500
Imaginary lines on a map that run east and west.
What are lines of latitude?
500
A large city and its surrounding suburbs make up this city's area.
What is a metropolitan area?
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