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SS Ch 1 Grade 5
Chapter 1 Social Studies Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Next to each other | Contiguous |
| An area in which many features are similar | Region |
| The location of a place compared to other places | Relative Location |
| The seven largest land masses | Continent |
| The number of people in an area | Population |
| A region that has similar landforms throughout | Landform Region |
| The kind of weather a place has over a long period of time | Climate |
| A group of connected mountains | Mountain Range |
| The gradual wearing away of the Earth's surface | Erosion |
| An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly by grassses | Prairie |
| The surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live | Environment |
| An area of water extending into land from a larger body of water | Inlet |
| A very large inlet | Gulf |
| An inlet that separates offshore islands from the mainland | Sound |
| A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river | Tributary |
| River system | River System |
| Drainage Basin | Drainage Basin |
| Fall Line | Fall Line |
| The height of the land in relation to sea level | Elevation |
| Plant life that grows naturally in a place | Natural Vegetation |
| Dry | Arid |
| A cold dry region where trees cannot grow | Tundra |
| How the land is used | Land Use |
| Something found in nature that people can use | Natural Resource |
| Resources that can be made again by people or nature (ex. water, trees, sun, and wind) | Renewable Resource |
| Resources that cannot be made again or would take thousands of years for nature to replace | Nonrenewable Resource |
| To change | Modify |
| The use of canals ditches or pipes to move water | Irrigation |
| Using less of something to do the same task | Efficiency |