Social Studies - Lesson 1: Fourth Grade
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- Geography
- The study of Earth and all of the different kinds of things on it. Includes land, water, plant and animal life, and human activities.
- Landform
- Shapes that make up EarthÂ’s surface. Includes hills, plains, plateaus, basins, mountains.
- Plain
- A large area of nearly flat land.
- Plateau
- High, flat area that rises steeply above the surrounding land.
- Basin
- A low, bowl-shaped landform surrounded by higher land.
- Coast
- The land along the ocean.
- Desert
- A place where very little rain falls.
- Environment
- Surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live.
- Coastal Plain
- This landform is a narrow, flat strip along the Atlantic Ocean. It gets wider as you go south.
- Appalachian Mountains
- Rounded mountains that stretch all the way from Maine to Alabama.
- Interior Plains
- Wide plains that stretch for hundreds of miles between two mountain ranges.
- Mississippi River
- One of the longest rivers in North America.
- Rocky Mountains
- Mountains that stretch through the western United States. They are high and jagged.
- Elevation
- The height of the land above the level of the sea.
- Climate
- The pattern of weather that a place has over many years. It includes temperature and precipitation.
- Temperature
- Measure of how hot or cold the air is.
- Precipitation
- The moisture that falls to the ground. It may be in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
- Which oceans border the two coasts of the U.S.
- Atlanic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
- Name one Plain, one River, and One Mountain Range found in the U.S.
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Plain: Interior Plains, Coastal Plains
Mountain Range: Rocky Mountains, Appalacian Mountains
River: Mississippi, Ohio Colorado -
How are the Interior Plains and Coastal Plains alike?
How are they different? -
They are both large areas of nearly flat land.
The Coastal Plain is along the ocean and the Interior Plains are between two mountian ranges. - Why does an elevation map tell us which way a river flows.
- Rivers flow downhill. Every river begins at a higher elevation than where it ends. So if the elevation is higher in the north and lower in the south, the river will flow from north to South.
- How does an elevation map help us learn about geography.
- It tells us which way rivers flows, and it shows that there are mountains at high elevations and basis at low elevation.