Calvert Curriculum Block 40 Geography
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- What are the two important parts of any place's climate?
- temperature and precipitation
- What are land surfaces?
- landforms
- What are the times of the year?
- seasons
- What is a wide area of flat or gently rolling land?
- plain
- What is an imaginary line that goes through the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole?
- axis
- What shows you the kinds of land surfaces?
- Relief map
- Natural gas, petroleum, and coal are all what?
- fuels
- What is a plain that is bordered by a large body of water?
- coastal plain
- What is a low, level piece of land at the mouth of a river?
- delta
- What is a piece of land almost surrounded by water?
- peninsula
- Rain, snow, mist, sleet, and hail are all forms of what?
- precipitation
- To use water from rivers and lakes to make up for a lack of rainfall?
- irrigate
- By using heat from burning coal, the iron can be melted out of the rock. This is called what?
- smelting
- Agriculture is another word for what?
- Farming
- What is a high, steep land?
- mountain
- What is power in which generators change the power of moving water into electric power?
- hydroelectric power
- What is soft coal?
- bituminous
- What are things found on and in the Earth that are useful to people but are not made by people?
- natural resources
- What is weather over a long period of time called?
- climate
- What is hard coal?
- anthracite
- What is the beginning of a river?
- source
- What are supplies that have not been mined?
- reserves
- Where a river empties into a large body of water?
- mouth
- Uranium is a source of what type of energy?
- atomic or nuclear energy
- What is a body of land completely surrounded by water?
- island
- What is a large,high area of land. It generally rises steeply from the land around it,at least on one side. The top, or surface, is usually flat and level?
- plateau