Vocabulary
Characteristics of a place that come from human ideas and actions, such as houses, bridges, and roads
What are cultural characteristics?
The latitude at 0
What is the equator?
What is Mesopotamia?
Africa is _______ of Europe.
South
Clean water for drinking and cleaning, and transportation, and farming
Characteristics of a place that describe its natural environment, such as landforms, bodies of water, vegetation, climate, and animal life
What are environmental characteristics?
The longitude at 0
The _______ and _______ mountains protected Mesopotamia from the __________.
What is Zagros, Taurus, and northeast?
Asia is ______ of Africa.
northeast
What are 3 advantages of living near mountains?
Cooler climate, protection from invaders, resources
Volcanoes, mesas, canyons, rivers, lakes
What are physical features?
The latitude at 23.5 north
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
What are three ways that humans impacted the environment by building the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River in 1971?
1. No more flooding
2. Less fertile soil
3. More parasites
Describe the location of the Pacific Ocean using at least 1 continent and 1 cardinal direction.
West of North America, West of South America, East of Asia, East of Australia
What is an advantage of living near deserts?
Protection from invaders
The height of a geographical features above or below a fixed reference point
What is elevation?
The latitude at 23.5 south
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
What are three environmental characteristics that gave Mesopotamia an advantage?
1. Zagros and Taurus Mountains provided protection from the northeast
2. Syrian and Arabian Desert provided protection from the southwest
3. The Tigris and Euphrates River gave them access to the Persian Gulf and the ocean for transportation and trade
Describe the location of the Atlantic Ocean using at least 1 continent and 1 cardinal direction.
West of Europe, West of Africa, East of North America, East of South America
What are three advantages of having access to oceans?
Food, trade, communication, transportation, exploration, escape from invaders
The large-scale movement of a species from one environment to another
What is migration?
_______ are the lines that run east to west and ________ are the lines that run north to south.
What are Latitude, Longitude?
Give an example of a cultural characteristic and an example of an environmental characteristic from a continent.
Answers will vary.
Describe the location of the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean using cardinal directions AND the equator.
The Arctic Ocean is north of the equator and the Southern Ocean is south of the equator.
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