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Faith's Social Study
Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Landform | Any of the shapes that make up the Earth's surface. |
| Plain | A large area of flat or nearly flat land. |
| Geography | The study of earth. |
| Border | A line that people agree on that divides one place from another. |
| Plateau | A large area that rises steeply above the surrounding land. |
| Valley | The lowland between hills or mountains often with a river on the bottom. |
| Ice Age | A period of time when the Earth was much colder than it is today. |
| Glacier | A huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land. |
| Moraine | A line of low hills formed by the rocks pushed at the front of a glacier. |
| Till | Soil and rocks dropped by a glacier. |
| Drumlin | A smoothly rounded hill formed by a melting glacier. |
| Transportation | The moving of goods or people from one place or another. |
| Source | The place where a river begins. |
| Tributary | Any river that flows into another larger river. |
| Mouth | The place where a river empties into an ocean, a lake or a larger river. |
| Coast | The land next to an ocean. |
| Bay | A part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land. |
| Harbor | A sheltered place along a coast where boats can dock. |
| Hudson River | River in eastern New York that flows into the New York Bay. |
| Lake Erie | The most southern of the five great lakes. Forms a part of the border between the U.S. and Canada. |
| Lake Ontario | The smallest of the five great lakes. Forms part of the border between the U.S. and Canada. |
| New York Bay | Bay in southern New York at the mouth of the Hudson River where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Weather | The condition of the air at a certain time in a certain place including temperature, precipitation and wind. |
| Climate | The pattern of weather of a certain place over many years. |
| Temperature | A measurement of how hot or cold something is, often the air. |
| Precipitation | The moisture that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail. |
| Hurricane | A storm with very strong winds and heavy rains. |
| Blizzard | A snowstorm with very strong winds. |
| environment | the surroundings in which people,plants or animals live. |
| natural resource | something found in the environment that people can use. |
| fertilizer | chemicals added to soil to help plants grow. |
| renewable resource | a natural resource that can be replaced. |
| nonrenwable resource | a natural resource that cannot be replaced |
| population | the number of people who live in a place or area |
| economy | the way a country or other place uses or produces natural resources, goods and services |
| quarry | a place where a stone is cut out and removed from the ground |
| conservation | the careful use of a natural resource |
| region | an area with common features that set it apart from other areas |
| history | the story of what happend in the past |
| port | a place where ships load and unload their goods |
| gorge | a narrowdeep,valley with steep,rocky sides. |
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Faith Ann
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