Lesson 1 Vocabulary

a group of places and peoples controlled by one powerful government

• Umpire

• Empire

• region

• place

dry places that receive little rainfall, have no trees, have few or no plants; tropical deserts are located 20 to 30 degrees north and south of the Equator

• Savanna

• Dry Grassland

• Swamp

• Desert

places with tall trees, warm temperatures in all months, and rainfall at least 10 months; located about 0 to 5 degrees north and south of the Equator

• Equatorial rain-forest

• Desert

• Dry Grassland

• Savanna

places where most plants are short (short grasses, not trees) because they need only small amounts of water; tropical grasslands are located 15 to 20 degrees north and south of the Equator

• Equatorial rain-forest

• Desert

• Grassland

• Savanna

the physical environment (plants, animals, soils, climate) in a place

• Place

• Region

• Habitat

• State

a disease that occurs in places that are warm and have rainfall most of the year; spread by mosquitoes

• Small Pox

• Malaria

• Polio

• Chicken Pox

a plant with seeds that people use for food; it grows in warm dry areas (e.g. grasslands)

• Millet

• Oatmeal

• Barely

• Quaker's Oats

water in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls on the land

• Prescription

• Precipitation

• Hydrosphere

• Perception

an animal that hunts and eats other animals

• predator

• Prey

the areas where a particular type of plant or animal is likely to live (e.g., where fire ants live)

• Region

• Area

• Range