2.3 Physical Features, Landforms, and Bodies of Water
This term for height above sea level sounds a bit like what you ride to get to the top of a tall building.
What is elevation?
While weather describes what is happening today or tomorrow, _________________ describes what it will be like fore the next 30 years and is all about to patterns and longer time periods
What is climate?
The letters at the bottom of a climagraph stand for these: be careful with those Js though, there are three of them!
What are months?
Give me some space! The higher the population density, the more __________________ a place is.
What is crowded?
Money Money Money! This term describes any action that relates to the making, buying, and selling of goods and services.
What is Economic Activity?
We have some Great ones near us! Large bodies of water surrounded by land that is.
What is a lake?
No wonder no one leaves California! It has a lot of coast, where climates near the ocean tend to stay ____________________
What is mild?
What is precipitation?
Math! But this is Social Studies! Too bad, to calculate population density, you have to do this to the total number of people living in a location by that location's total land area.
What is divide?
What are natural resources?
What is an island?
Feeling hot and see a mountain nearby? Climb it to reach cooler temperatures by increasing your _______________________
What is elevation or altitude?
I went to Thailand and all I got was this umbrella! Maybe I should have looked at the climagraph for this climate zone, where it is hot and rainy all year.
The most crowded areas on a population density map will be this color, with over 250 people per square mile often living in large cities.
What is purple?
Let's hope the printer doesn't run out of ink when we study Economic Activity, as the maps use these to show what the land use is in different locations.
What are colors?
The "R" in Nile R. on the map doesn't stand for Rizz, instead it is this large flow of water that moves across land and empties into a larger body of water
What is a river?
No wonder it is so warm near the Equator and cold at the South and North Poles! The lower your __________________, the warmer it is.
What is latitude.
Climate scientists must have been running out of ideas when naming climate zones when they came up with this one, where temperature and precipitation vary with latitude and elevation. Might as well have called it mountains...
What is highlands?
If you need to run to your neighbor's house for a cup of sugar, I hope you don't find yourself in this population density that some people in Central Asia live in with almost empty countries.
What is fewer than 2 people per square mile?
These emoji-like things on an Economic Activity map show what natural resources are found in different locations.
What are symbols?
It might sound and look a bit boring, but this large area of relatively flat land covers more than 1/3 of the Earth
What is a plain?
Who knew air has to climb too? That explains all the rain on one side of a ___________________, as moist air is forced upward, cools, forms into clouds, and turns into rainfall.
What is a mountain?
Tired of this rain and snow? Well you might miss it if you end up in this hot and dry all year with very little rain climate zone common in deserts
What is arid?
The three different sized black dots on a population map show this type of population: the largest ones have over 8,000,000 people!
What is urban?
This type of land use, where people move around often to find food and water for their animals, has been around for thousands of years and is still practiced by millions of people today.
What is nomadic herding?