Side Notes
Vocabulary Words
The Land We Call Home
Landforms
100

________ can be described by their land and people. ( page 24)

Places

100

If a place is _______, it means there are only a few homes and a lot of open land. (Page 24)


rural

100

Rivers help make_______. (page 26)

electricity

100

A small or narrow bay is called an _______.

 (page 29)

inlet

200

______ grows in wet places. (page 32)

Moss

200

_______ means how high the land is above the level of the ocean. (page 33)

Elevation

200
Our most important fish - _______- lives part of its life in freshwater and part of its life in the ocean. (page 26)

salmon

200

A ________ is a low hill at the base of a mountain.

(page 29) 

foothill

300

On the plateau, it is too dry for ______ to grow.  (page 33)

forests

300

The _______of Washington is all the people who live in the state. (page 24)

population
300

What year did Mt. St. Helens erupt? (page 30)

1980

300

A _______is low flat land surrounded by mountains or plateaus. (page 29)

valley

400

As you can see from the map (on page 25), our state has many _______. (page 25)

waterways

400

_________ is what the weather is like year after year. (page 32)

climate

400

Most of our people live in ______  _______ that spread out for miles from Puget Sound. ( 2 words) (page 24)

large cities

400

The ________  ________ are near the ocean. 

(page 28)

Olympic Mountains.

500

How many large volcanoes are in Washington State? (page 30)

Five / 5

500

_______  _______ are things found in nature that are useful to people. (page 25) (two words)

Natural resources
500

The ________ of the land affects the climate. (page 33)

elevation

500

Which landform is deep enough for anchoring ships? 

(page 28)

Harbor