Vocab
What is precipitation?
The amount of rain, snow, or other precipitation that comes down from clouds.
What is a landform? Define it.
A natural feature in earth surface.
What is a region?
An area that shares characteristics with other near by places.
Can you give me an example of a natural resource?
Soil, water, trees, animals, minerals.
How might you describe the weather and climate of Texas?
Weather: Hot/warm.
What is an aquifer?
What land forms do we have in our region?
Hills, lakes, bays, rivers, plains, islands, coasts, cliffs, flood plains.
What region of the United States do we live in?
The Midwest.
Could you give me an example of a capital resource?
How does climate affect elevation?
The higher you are the colder you will be.
What is adapt?
To change to ones environment.
What landforms do we not have in our region?
Oceans, mountains, mountain ranges, plateaus, canyons.
What region of the U.S. can you find West Virgina?
South East
Can you give me an example of a human resource?
People who make/ grow/build/ that manage the products or other people.
How do people use technology to change our environment?
People use technology to build dams, highways, and places to live.
What is Economy?
The use of wealth and resources in an area.
What region of the United States has deserts?
The Southwest and the West
What region of the United States is the most varied?
The West
What is the difference between a renewable and a nonrenewable resource? Can you give me an example of each?
Renewable resource: A resource that can be replaced. (Trees, light, wind)
Nonrenewable resource: A resource can't be replaced or it takes a long time to be replaced. (Coal, oil, natural gas)
How might someone adapt to living in a state like California if they moved there from Alaska?
Less heat for the house. Wearing shorts and t shirts. Swimming/ surfing instead of snowmobiling/ ice fishing.
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is a plateau?
A large raised flat area of land.
Sometimes certain features make up the boundaries from state to state. What kinds of features help make borders?
Lakes and rivers.
Sort the following resources into renewable and nonrenewable.
Air, coal, plants, oil, soil, minerals, water, animals, and metal.
Renewable Air, soil, water, plants, animals
Non-renewable coal, oil, metal, minerals.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Climate is what the weather is like over a period of time. Weather is day to day.