Vocab
Land and water
What is geography?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario
What are the Great Lakes?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, Pacific
What are the oceans?
A day we come together and remember unity over sadness.
What is 9/11?
Compass rose, legend, information, scale and title
What are the parts of a map? or What is CLIST
Laws and leaders, jobs and money.
What is government and economy?
The Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada
What are the mountain ranges in the USA?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia
What are the continents?
A day we celebrate American workers who are the backbone of our economy and our country
What is Labor Day?
A document that shows the Earth's identifiable natural landscape features such as mountains and rivers
What is a physical map?
It's what we do. Holidays, traditions, language, religion, sports, music, food and more.
What is culture?
Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson
What are the major rivers in the USA?
Common/connected land and culture examples include the Middle East, Central America and Scandinavia
What is a region?
A time of year we recongnize inspiration and contribution of Latinx people in America
What is Hispanic Heritage month?
A document that shows country boundaries
What is a political map?
Roads, bridges, airports, trains, sanitation systems, communication/phone/cable systems, electrical systems and more.
What is infrastucture?
A broad expanse of flatland in the Midwest used for farming
What are the Great Plains?
Latitude and longitude intersect to give absolute address.
What is GPS?
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "We the people"
What are the important phrases of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
A document that displays information to answer a specific question or idea such as climate, vegetation, natural resources, population density.
What is a thematic map?
People impacting Earth and the Earth impacted our way of life
What is human-environment interaction?
A steep-sided place carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.
What is the Grand Canyon?
0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude
What is the equator and the prime meridian?
A tribute to military people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces
What is Veteran's Day?
The relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the earth.
What is a map scale?