Location
What type of location is:
1505 Downing
Haslett, MI 48840
What are physical characteristics?
Physical characteristics are things found in nature.
What is the capital city of Michigan?
Lansing
Things we find in nature that we USE.
What is a border?
A place where one area ends and another begins
relative location
What are human characteristics?
Things found in an area that people make.
What county do you live in?
Ingham County
What natural resources does Michigan have a lot of?
What is a bay?
A body of water surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is Geography?
The study of places
What type of characteristics are lakes, sand dunes, mountains, rivers, and forests?
Natural Characteristics
What Great Lake is the biggest?
Lake Superior
How do we use the following:
water, trees, fertile soil, minerals, gas & oil
drinking, washing, recreation, lumber, farming, making things, heat and running things
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
HOMES
Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior
What types of characteristics to people look for when planning a vacation?
Both human and natural characteristics
What township do you live in?
Meridian Township
What are some ways we MODIFY our environment?
pollute, cut down trees, clear the land, etc..
What is a region?
an area of land that has common characteristics (things in common)
Which of the Great Lakes is completely in the United States?
Lake Michigan
What types of characteristics are bridges, roads, statues, monuments, and airports?
Human characteristics
What things move INTO and OUT OF Michigan?
people, things (products), and ideas
We can get things in Michigan that we can't grow or make ourselves.
what are some of the ways we ADAPT to the environment?
how we dress, how we build our homes, what we do for fun, & what we do for work