Maps and Globes
Finding Your Location
The Physical Environment
People and the Environment
Terms to Know
100
Land, water, or plant life.
What are physical features?
100
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and runs through Europe, Africa, and Antarctica.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
Plains, mountains, ridge, valley's, plateaus, hill
What are landforms?
100
Another word for changing the environment.
What is modifying?
100
Maps and Globes
What are geographic tools?
200
Shows how many people live in an area.
What is a population map?
200
The bank is near Bonjangles.
What is an example of relative location?
200
The average weather of a place over a period of time.
What is climate?
200
To improve transportation, people may sometimes build a __________ or ____________ to make travel distances shorter.
What is a tunnel or canal.
200
A place's land, water, or plant life.
What are physical features?
300
The four hemispheres.
What is the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere, and the Eastern Hemisphere?
300
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia.
What are states that border North Carolina?
300
Where a river drops from higher to lower ground.
What is a fall line?
300
Clearing land, plowing land, and using irrigation.
What is a farmer?
300
Getting minerals from beneath Earth's surface.
What is mining?
400
The four types of maps.
What is a political map, a physical map, a road map, and a population map?
400
Is the exact location of a place.
What is absolute location?
400
Low area of land.
What is a valley?
400
A human-made lake.
What is a reservoir?
400
Imaginary lines that run north and south from pole to pole.
What are lines of longitude?
500
Tells where a place is and what it looks like.
What is a geographic tool?
500
North Carolina is on this continent.
What is North America?
500
The three regions of North Carolina.
What is the Mountain region, the Piedmont region, and the Coastal Plain region.
500
Irrigation
What is one way people modify the environment?
500
Something from nature that people can use, such as water, soil and trees.
What are natural resources?
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