Shape or feature of the earth's surface
What is a landform?
the way wind and water wear away the land, bit by bit
What is erosion?
study of people, places, and the earth
What is geography?
Name a landform that can be found in the United States.
What is plain, plateau, hill, mountain, valley?
Kind of water that covers two-thirds of the earth.
What is the ocean?
Weather of a place over along pereiod of time.
What is climate?
Land next to the ocean.
What is the coast?
Dry area where little rain falls and few plants grow.
What is a desert?
Area that shares one or more features.
What is a region?
What is the Great Lakes known for?
They form the largest body of fresh water on earth.
Water, soil, air, and living things around you.
What is environment?
Things found in nature that are useful to people.
What is natural resources?
Resources that can be replaced.
Examples of natural resources.
What is air, water, soil, and living things, such as plants?
Resources that cannot be replaced.
What is nonrenewable resources?
Example of a nonrenewable resource.
What is oil?
Example of a flow resource.
What is sun and wind?
A way communities can conserve renewable resources by reusing things that have been thrown away.
What is recycling?
What is a capital?
A waterway made by people.
What is a canal?
Anything that dirties the air, soil, and water.
What is pollution?
Why communities are often located near water.
People need fresh water to drink and water for their crops. They also use water to ship and make things.
Effect erosion has on landforms.
Why people might live in valleys.
What is the soil at the bottom of valleys can be good for farming?
How people use water to have fun.
What is swimming, fishing, sailing, ice skating?