Vocabulary
Resources
Maps and Regions
Maryland
Regional Grab Bag
100
weather over a long period of time
What is climate?
100
This resource comes from the earth and is found is nature.
What is a natural resource?
100
This is made of of several smaller areas. They share something such as location, climate, resources, religion or culture.
What is a region
100
Marylander's favorite natural resource
What are CRABS!!!
100
George Washington carver worked with these because they grew really well in the South where it is warm
What is peanuts.
200
What is happening in the atmosphere right at this moment
What is weather?
200
This is a resource that helps to process natural resources (like machinery and tools)
What is a capital resource?
200
A smaller map that is related to a larger map on the page
What is an inset map
200
Resources in Maryland used to make furniture and paper
What is trees
200
You might find this in an area where they have a lot of cows used for milk
What is a Dairy
300
This landform looks like a mountain with the top shaved off. It is flat and elevated
What is a mesa?
300
A worker in a factory or a lumberjack is this type of resource
What is a human resource?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Draw a compass rose with the cardinal and intermediate directions
Is your beautiful drawing correct?
300
At the top of the Appalachian Mountains, it will be colder due to this
What is their high elevation.
300
One tells you about the climate of a region over time, the other tells you what is happening right now
What is the difference between climate and weather
400
The amount of water in the air (hint: feels like you are wearing a jacket made of steam)
What is humidity?
400
Once these resources are gone, we cannot make or create more without waiting a really, really long time (like billions of years)
What is nonrenewable resources
400
A person who makes and studies maps.
What is a cartographer?
400
There aren't too many of these in Maryland because our climate is too cool to grow it well.
What is cotton fields and cotton processing plants.
400
Riding a bike, walking, shutting off the lights,
What is ways to conserve resources
500
Stuff that comes from the sky in the form or rain, sleet or snow (not aliens)
What is precipitation?
500
These natural resources can be more easily created or grown during a year.
What is renewable resources.
500
If something is too far away, but still part of the main map you might use one of these.
What is an inset map.
500
We get oranges, lemons and limes by trucks from this region (or state) because our climate is too cool to grow citrus trees
What is the Southeast or West
500
Reusing natural resources for a different purpose
What is recycling.
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