LAND AND REGIONS
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
What is climate
the pattern of weather in a place over a period of time
What is a natural resource?
something in the environment that people can use
How can someone adapt to an environment?
they change to fit a new set of conditions
Name the 5 regions of the united states.
West, midwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast
what can affect climate?
What is a capital resource?
human made things
irrigation
What is a Plateaus?
a large, flat, raised area of land
What is humidity?
the amount of water in the air.
What is human made resource?
people and their skills, ideas, and hard work
What is an underground layer of porous rock that holds water called?
aquifer
What is a mesa?
a hill, but the top is flat
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the condition of the air at a certain time and place and climate is the pattern of a weather in a place over a period of time.
what is a renewable and nonrenewable resource.
renewable can be replaced and nonrenewable cannot be replaced
The use of tools and scientific knowledge to do work
How are regional boundaries and state boundaries different?
State boundaries are official lines between states, while regional boundaries group multiple states based on shared features like geography or climate.
What is the water cycle? name the process.
Evaporation: the sun heats the water, oceans, lakes, and rivers changing it to gas making water vapor
Condensation: water vapor cools and forms drops
Precipitation: rains or snow falls
What does conserve mean?
To save
What does it mean when you change something so that people can use it?
You process it