Geography 1
Geography 2
Location
People
Terms to Know
100
This word means "half a sphere."
What is hemisphere?
100
This term refers to study of Earth and the different things on it.
What is geography?
100
These states border Texas.
What are New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
100
This word is the motto for Texas.
What is Friendship?
100
This term refers to the surroundings in which you and other people, plants, and animals live.
What is environment?
200
This word is given to the seven large bodies of land on Earth.
What are continents?
200
In what region of the United States is Texas located?
What is the Southwest?
200
A star on a map represents this location.
What is the state's capital?
200
These people were the first Americans.
Who are Native American Indians?
200
This thick, black liquid comes from the ground and is a useful and necessary natural resource. State also its two nicknames.
What is petroleum? Its nicknames are Black Gold and Texas Tea.
300
This imaginary line lies halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the equator?
300
This word is used to name an area with common features that set it apart from other areas.
What is region?
300
This guide tells a map reader what the symbols on the map mean.
What is a map key?
300
This term refers to any person in your family, from your parents back, who was born before you.
What are ancestors?
300
This term refers to something in the environment that people can use. Some are renewable. State the term and list three that are renewable.
What are natural resources? Forests, Trees, Water are renewable natural resources.
400
This small drawing on a map can help you find directions.
What is a compass rose?
400
This divides the Texas and the United States from Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande river?
400
These two bodies of water are dividing lines for the State of Texas. One divides Texas, USA from Mexico, and the other divides Texas from the State of Oklahoma. Name the bodies of water, and which divides which!
What are the Rio Grande river, which divides Texas, USA from the country of Mexico, and the other is the Red River, which divides the State of Texas from the State of Oklahoma.
400
This is the origin of the motto for Texas.
Friendship comes from the Caddo Indian word "Tejas" meaning friend or friendship.
400
This term refers to the careful use of natural resources. Explain why this is important.
What is conservation? Conservation is important in order to keep from 1. using up our resources where there are no more, or 2. from polluting them where what we have cannot be used.
500
This is the term used for the "main" directions: North, South, East, and West.
What are cardinal directions?
500
Natural features or shapes of the earth's surface are called by this name. Be prepared to name four.
What are landforms? Mountains, Plains, Hills, Valleys, Plateaus, Canyons
500
These two terms refer to the countryside and areas where there are fewer people, and to the cities and communities that surround them. Differentiate which is which, and give an example of each.
What is rural? Vernon, Brownfield What is urban? Dallas, Houston, San Antonio
500
Explain the difference between culture and customs.
Culture refers to the way of life of a group of people. Customs is a term that refers to the particular way a group of people does something. It includes traditions, and special ways of celebrating something happy, or mourning something sad.
500
State the difference between weather and climate.
Weather refers to the air conditions outside on a daily basis. This includes temperature and precipitation. Climate refers to a pattern of weather over a long period of time.
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