Vocabulary Review
What is the study of the Earth and the people who live on it.
Geography
What is a 3D representation of the Earth's actual shape. They are not easy to carry around.
Using your town map in your review packet:
Which direction would Larry need to go to get to school?
South
What are natural resources?
Anything found in nature that people use to survive and make their lives better.
What are physical features?
A natural part of the Earth's surface that you can see.
Continents
Using your town map in your review packet:
Which direction(s) would Kim need to go to get to the police station?
South then west
OR
West then South
What are some examples of natural resources?
Coconuts, trees, stream (water).
What are some examples of physical features?
Rivers
Forests
Beach
What is a tool that uses a magnetic needle to determine which way is north or south.
What is a compass?
What is it called when we change the envionrment to better meet our needs.
Modification
Using your town map in your review packet:
What direction(s) would Ms. Wulff need to go to get to Deyoung Street after leave the school?
South
Why are natural resources important to have near a new settlement?
They help people survive.
True or False: People make physical features exist.
False!
This is like a picture from space that shows the physical features of the Earth.
Physical Maps
What is anything that is found in nature that people use to survive and make their lives better.
Natural Resources
Using your town map in your review packet:
First Police Officer Larry has to go to the supermarket. Then he is going home. Which directions is he going?
First he goes East to get to the supermarket.
Then he goes North, then East to get home. OR he goes East then North to get home.
What are some ways people use this natural resource: Water
- Cooking
- Drinking
- Cleaning
- Transportation
Which physical features are a good choice to build a new settlement near?
A low area of land between hills or mountains.
Valley
What is it called when we protect and preserve the environment or nature.
Conservation
Using your town map in your review packet:
Kim left her house and went to Maple Park. Afterwards she visited Harriet. Which directions did she go.
First she went south then east to get to Maple Park.
Afterwards, she went west to visit Harriet.
Bonus: What is the example Ms. Wulff gave for someone using natural resources?
What are examples of people adapting to the environment?
What are some examples modifying their environment?
Modifying: The Chinampas, highways, buildings, bridges, irrigation systems, dams.