Chapter 1 Lesson 1

Chapter 1 Lesson 1

​Glaciers

• ​Flattened land

• ​Left behind rich soil for good farming

• ​Northern IN has marshes and swamps

Poll

Which part of Indiana would have been affected the least by glaciers?

• Northern Indiana

• Central Indiana

• Southern Indiana

​Indiana's Landforms

• ​IN has many natural landforms

  • ​Brown County hills

  • ​Wyandotte Cave

  • ​Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Multiple Choice

Why is most of the land in central and northern Indiana flat?

• A meteor flattened the land

• There has never been many hills in the middle of the state

• Wind and water has eroded the soil

• Glaciers moved across the northern two thirds of Indiana

Multiple Choice

What does lithosphere mean?

• water such as lakes and rivers of Indiana

• rocks and soil of Indiana

• animals and plants of Indiana

• all the people who live in Indiana

Open Ended

How might water from a lake become snow on top of mountains?

​Hydrologic Cycle

• ​IN has rivers and lakes, streams, and ponds

  • ​43 miles of shore along Lake Michigan

  • ​Lake Wawasee is biggest natural lake

  • ​Rivers

    • ​Ohio

    • ​Wabash

    • ​White

Open Ended

If I was a farmer 150 years ago and wanted to send my corn, soybeans, and other crops to different parts of the state and country, how would Indiana's hydrologic cycle help me?

Indiana's ​Biosphere

• ​plants and animals of the state

• ​80% of IN once trees. 7% in 1917. 20% now

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Open Ended

Visit the following website.  Find one animal and read about it.  In 1-2 sentences, explain, in your own words, what you think is interesting about it:   https://tinyurl.com/indianabiosphere