Landforms/Bodies of Water
What is a large area of flat land with few trees called?
Answer: What is a plain?
What do we call the part of a map that explains what the symbols mean?
Answer: What is a legend or key?
What do we call the average weather conditions in a specific area over a long period?
Answer: What is climate?
What does the slope of a line on a graph of weather or climate indicate?
Answer: What is the rate of change in temperature?
What is the practice of protecting the Earth’s natural resources called?
Answer: What is conservation?
What is the longest river in the United States?
If a map shows different colors for various countries, what type of map is this?
Answer: What is a political map?
What is the term for water that falls from the sky, such as rain or snow?
Answer: What is precipitation?
If a line graph shows a steady increase, what can we say about the data?
Answer: What is it increasing consistently over time?
What are materials found in nature that people use to make things called?
Answer: What are natural resources?
What are coastal plains?
Answer: Low-lying, flat areas of land that lie next to the coast
What type of map would you use to find the elevation of different areas?
Answer: What is an elevation or topographic map?
What is the climate like in the Northeast region of the U.S.?
Answer: What is the most temperate biome/environment, we get all 4 seasons, very cold winters and hot summers, temperature decreases as you move north
Answer: What is so that people can be prepared for either types of temperature. They can dress appropriately and plan their day/week/month.
What type of resource is coal?
Answer: What is a non-renewable resource?
Which landform is characterized by steep sides and a flat top?
Answer: What is a plateau
What is the term for a map that shows the features of an area, like mountains and rivers?
Answer: What is a physical map?
List all 5 regions of the United States.
Answer: What is the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, and West.
Observe the following line graph and answer the questions.
What is the month that contains the highest average temperature and precipitation? What is the highest average temperature in Perm, Russia and what is the highest level of precipitation?
Answer: What is the month of July. What is 19 Degrees Celsius and 97 mm.
What do we call the natural resources that can be replenished naturally?
Answer: What are renewable resources?
What body of water is on the East coast of the United States?
Answer: What is the Atlantic Ocean.
Which direction is represented at the top of most maps?
Answer: What is north?
What is a hemisphere and what hemisphere are we on?
Answer: A hemisphere is the globe divided in half by 2 lines: the equator or the prime meridean. We are located in the Western or Northern Hemisphere, split by both lines.
Create a line graph using the whiteboards. You will have 5 minutes to create a line graph showing the average highest and lowest temperatures from Eleanor Roosevelt High School.
The timeframe was over the course of 4 days.
The average high temperatures were 86 on Day 1, 85 on Day 2, 89 on Day 3, and 91 Degrees (F) on Day 4.
The average low temperatures were 74 on Day 1, 69 on Day 2, 73 on Day 3, and 75 on Day 4.
Answers are based on student performance.
Give 3 examples of Nonrenewable Resources and explain one way humans can use each.
Then, give 3 examples of Renewable Resources and explain one way humans can use each.
Answers may vary.