Regions
What is the climate like in the Coastal Range?
It is the wettest part of the state and has snowy peaks in the mountains.
What do you use a legend for? What do you use a compass for?
You use it as a key to understand what symbols mean on a map. A compass shows the directions: north, east, south, west.
What is an urban versus rural place look like?
Urban is in a city, rural is in the country.
What is a natural boundary or an example of a natural boundary?
It is a boundary line formed by a natural landforms, like a coast, river, or mountain range.
What are landforms?
Natural features of the earth.
What is one city in the Puget Sound Lowlands
Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma, Bellevue, Bremerton
Symbols
What is it called when measuring how high land is above the level of the ocean?
Elevation
What is a political boundary?
A boundary line decided by people.
What is an island?
Land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is two of the mountains in the Cascade Mountains Region.
Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, Mt. Baker, or Glacier Peak.
What is a scale of miles?
A measurement that compares distance on the map to the actual distance of the land.
What is climate?
What the weather is like year after year.
What are physical characterstics?
A feature that has to do with the natural land and landforms.
What is a valley?
Low, flat land surrounded by mountains.
In the Columbia Plateau, farmers use irrigation because there is little rain in this region. What is irrigation?
Irrigation is when you dig ditches to bring water from lakes and streams to their plants.
What is the correct order of smallest to largest of city, country, continent, and state.
City, State, Country, Continent
What is the region that includes Washington, Oregon, and Idaho?
The Pacific Northwest Region.
What are cultural characteristics?
A feature that has to do with the way people live or look.
What is a peninsula?
A land that has water on three sides.
What is the climate like in the Rocky Mountains?
It is high elevation, so it is cool in the summer, but there are many thunderstorms. It is colder in the winter, the deep snow from November doesn't melt until April.
Name our city, state, country, and continent in that order.
Cheney, Washington, USA, North America
Does ocean make climate in an area more extreme or less extreme?
Bonus Question: Water is one of Washington's most valuable natural resources, what are different ways we use it?
Transportation, it is a source of food, rivers make electricity, and it is great for having fun!