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social studies 6th
louisiana geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| _________________ is the study of places, their locations, and their physical and human characteristics. | geography |
| The study of landforms, oceans, weather, and climate is called ____________ geography | physical |
| The study of how people interacted with, changed, and adapted to different places on the earth is called ___________ geography | cultural |
| Louisiana is one of our nations ________ states. | smaller |
| Louisiana covers _________ square miles of the U.S. | 48,523 |
| In size, it ranks ___________ out of the 50 states | 31st |
| With _________ square miles of water, Louisiana is also one of the ____________ states | 3,600 wettest |
| Over ____________ of our nation's wetlands are found in Louisiana | one third |
| In all, ______________ of the state is wet in saome fashion. | one |
| List Louisiana's four natural boundaries and where they are located. | 1. mississippi river (east) 2. Gulf of Mexico(south) 3. Sabine River (west) 4. Pearl RIver (east) |
| The earth is divided into ________ time zones. | 24 |
| The United States has __________ times zones. | 6 |
| As you travel east the time increases by _____________ in each time zone | one hour |
| The contiguous (connected) 48 states are divided into ___________ time zones. | 4 |
| From east to west the four time zones are | 1. eastern 2 central 3 mountain 4 pacific |
| Lousiana is in the _________ time zone | central |
| ________________ are low flat valleys through which rivers flow. | flood plains |
| Floodplains are some of Louisiana's richest ___________________ lands | agricultral |
| _______________are those areas of Louisiana with highest elevation | uplands |
| Louisiana's largest upland area is the ____________ in the northern part of the state. | piney hills |
| Louisiana's highest point is _______________ which rises __________ feet above sea level. | driskill mountain 535 |
| The ________________ created much of Louisiana by depositing sediment in the Gulf of Mexico. | mississippi |
| The mississippi river is the _______________ river in the United states. | largest |
| The Mississippi River is the __________- largest river in the world. | 4th |
| The Mississippi river flows over ____________ miles. | 2,000 |
| The Mississippi river carries over ___________ billion gallons of wate through Louisiana a day | 375 |
| ______________ is the second longest river in Louisiana. | Red River |
| The Red River got its name from the _____________ sediment it carries | reddish |
| A_________________ is a branch of a river flowing away from the main stream | distributary |
| _____________- is the longest distributary of the Mississippi River | Atchafalaya |
| The Atchafalays River Basin is the largest ___________ wilderness in the United States. | swamp |
| The ______________ begins in the mountains of Arkansas and runs through northest Louisiana. | Ouachita River |
| The Ouachita River is used by commercial ____________- to travel and carry goods to Arkansas. | barges |
| The ________________ forms the border between Texas and Louisiana. | Sabine river |
| A _________ is a slow moving stream. | bayou |
| Two of louisiana's biggest bayous are Bayou Teche and Bayou Lafourche in _______________ Louisiaina | south |
| The Gulf of Mexico is the ______________ largest sea in the world. | 9th |
| The Gulf of Mexico covers almost ______________ square miles. | 600,000 |
| Louisiana has over _____________ miles of coastline along the Gulf. | 1,000 |
| Louisiana's rivers are important to our state but are prone to ______________ | flooding |
| List three ways we attempt to control our rivers: | 1 levees 2 dams 3 spillways |
| Explain why we started our levee system in Louisiana | We started because the flood of 1927 was so castrophic |
| When are spillways used? | They are used during severe floods |
| a crescent or horseshoe shaped lake formed when a river cuts off a meander. | oxbow |
| created when land sinks below a fault | depression |
| found only along the Red River. They were caused by a massive log jam. | raft |
| are found along the Gulf Coast | coastal lake |
| manmade lakes found mostly in North Louisiana. ( Lake D'Arbonne is an example of this) | resevoir |
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