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Landforms & Bodies of Water
Natural Resources
Human Characteristics & Interaction with the Environment
Important Vocabulary
Other
100
a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
100
What are natural resources?
What are things in nature that people find useful.
100
a tall building like a tower that has a light in the top to guide ships
What is a lighthouse?
100
the study of places
What is geography?
100

What city do we live in?

What is Dearborn Heights?

200
land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
200
soil that is good for growing things
What is fertile soil?
200
the name of the bridge that connects the lower and upper peninsula
What is the Mackinac bridge?
200
parts of a place made by people
What are human characteristics?
200

What county do we live in?

What is Wayne County?

300
ridges or hills of loose sand piled up by the wind
What are sand dunes?
300
natural resources found in the ground such as iron ore
What are minerals?
300
How have people in Michigan adapted to the environment?
What are heaters, air conditioners, slanted roofs, clothes for all climates, etc.
300
a city on a body of water where ships load and unload
What is a port?
300
What country do we live in?
What is the United States of America?
400
a body of water that is partly blocked off by land
What is a bay?
400
a mineral that is used to make steel
What is iron ore?
400
ways of moving things and people from one place to another
What is transportation?
400
What is vegetation?
What are the plants of an area.
400
What continent do we live in?
What is North America?
500
Name the 5 Great Lakes
What are: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior?
500
a mineral that is used to make things such as pipes for plumbing
What is copper?
500
How do people in Michigan modify/change the environment?
What is hunting animals, cutting down trees/clearing land, farming, etc.
500
water that falls to the ground as rain, sleet, hail, or snow
What is precipitation?
500
Describe the difference between relative and absolute location.
What is the exact location of a place (absolute location) and where the place is in relation to other places (relative location).