Geography of Michigan
The study of places
What is Geography?
The land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a Peninsula?
What do we call N, W, E, and S?
What are cardinal directions?
The Michigan State bird
What is an American Robin?
What do we call the way of life of a group of people. It includes their languages and beliefs.
What is culture?
The three things all states have
What is land, people, and government?
A piece of land surrounded by water
What is an Island?
What do we call the resource on a map that can show where cities, regions, or other landforms can help identify?
What is a key?
The Michigan State animal
What is a white tail deer?
Someone who studies geography
What is an Geographer?
Things in nature people find useful
What is natural resources?
The ridges or hills of loose sand piled up by the wind
What is a sand dune?
What do we call these directions of Ne, Se, Nw, Sw?
What are intermediate directions?
Your address is an example of
What is absolute location?
The place where one area ends and another begins
What is a border?
What do we call where people live, work, and have fun?
What is a community?
A very high, natural place on earth, higher than a hill
What is a mountain?
Daily Double!!
What do we call the lines that go east to west on a globe? Bonus points for naming the line that cuts Earth in half.
What is latitude? What is equator?
The Michigan State flower
What is an Apple Blossom?
the group of elected citizens who make and carry out the rules for a community, state or country
What is government?
What do we call an area with common features that sets it apart from other places?
What is a region?
What landform moved south to north creating what is now Michigan's two peninsulas?
What is a glacier?
What do we call the term for showing the relationship between distance on the map and distance on Earth? Hint: Usually located on a map.
What is a map scale?
Michigan is located in the ______ region of the U.S
What is Midwestern?
Which is it, Climate or Weather? Describes the type of weather and area has year after year?
What is climate?