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SS Ch 1 Grade 5
Chapter 1 Social Studies Review
Question | Answer |
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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 |