Lesson 1: The Land We Call Home
This is the study of the land, water, plants, animals, and people of a place.
What is geography?
This mountain range runs across Pennsylvania and was caused by tectonic plates moving together and pushing huge pieces of land. Years ago, huge glaciers covered this area.
What are the Allegheny Mountains?
The largest land region of PA that is a place of rolling hills and valleys. This region includes Pittsburgh and is known for its bituminous coal which is perfect for making steel.
What is the Allegheny Plateau?
What is an ecosystem?
Name three ways rivers were used in Pennsylvania.
What are transportation, swimming and boating, to power machines/mills?
This is the continent Pennsylvania is located on.
What is North America?
This land feature makes it easier to move goods in and out of Pennsylvania.
This land feature makes it harder to move goods across Pennsylvania.
What is rivers and mountains?
This region in PA is sometimes called the "Endless Mountains". It is known for the lumbering industry and farming that takes place in the valleys. Many visit for the toursim and it has the country's largest area of anthracite coal which was used to heat many homes.
What is the Ridge and Valley region?
These are things found in nature that are useful to people including water, soil, trees, and minerals.
What are natural resources?
Name the three major rivers in Pennsylvania.
What are the Susquehanna River, Delaware River, and Ohio River?
This tells us where a place is in relation to other places or things. For example, Pennsylvania is south of New York.
What is relative location?
Roads, bridges, tunnels, cities, barns, houses, shopping malls are all known as _________ features.
Whereas, soil, mountains, bodies of water, forests, and plants and animals are known as _________ features.
What are human features and manmade features?
This area of flat land is just east of the fall line and is known for including Philadelphia.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
This is what coal is primarily used for today?
What is electricity?
This Pennsylvania biologist wrote Silent Spring calling to the attention the dangers of failing to protect wildlife from chemicals.
Who was Rachel Carson?
This imaginary line runs around the middle of the earth.
What is the equator?
PA has a moderate climate with four seasons throughout the year. Although the climate of the entire state is moderate, these two factors often see it changing from place to place.
What is distance from large bodies of water and elevation change?
The flat, sandy land region of PA that is known for shipping access to the Great Lakes.
What is the Lake Erie Coastal Plain?
This is what we call it when a species is longer alive because of the impact of human development on their species, making the ecosystem challenging to live in.
What is extinction?
This is the name of the groundhog who "predicts" when spring is coming in PA based on a German Tradition called Candlemas Day.
Who is Punxsutawney Phil?
This tells us the exact spot where a place can be found using latitude and longitude lines, imaginary lines on the globe.
What is absolute location?
Name the three port cities are built near bodies of water. Bonus point for each if you get the three cities correct: name the type of port each one is.
What is an ocean port: philadelphia, What is a river port: Pittsburgh, What is a lake Port: Erie?
The region in PA that is known for having the best soil in the country, has many farms and factories, has strong German and Amish roots, and includes the capital city of Harrisburg.
What is the Piedmont Region?
These are four of Pennsylvania's natural ecosystems.
What are forests, freshwater, wetlands, and caves?
Name two of the five themes of geography.
What are location, place, movement, regions, and human-environmental interaction?