Lesson 2: Communities and Geography

Learning about landforms is part of ___________________.

• communities

• shapes

• geography

• Earth's surface

Land has different shapes. It can be_________________.

• Only hilly or flat

• Only high or low

• Only hilly and high

• hilly, flat, high and low

Where do people often build communities?

• in deserts

• on flat land

• on ports

• on mountains

Why are there few communities on mountains?

• It is hard to travel to the top of a mountain and hard to farm.

• It is too cold and dry.

• The mountain has too much water.

• The climate is too warm and gets ten inches of rain.

Few plants live in a ______________.

• port

• landform

• geography

• desert

Deserts have a very dry___________.

• climate

• port

• landform

• desert

A community on a ____________ may have a port.

• port

• peninsula

• mountain

• plateau

Goods can be loaded and unloaded at a _____________.

• port

• peninsula

• mountain

• plateau

_______________ changes the way people live.

• desert

• climate

• mountain

• plateau

True or False: A desert gets more than ten inches of rain.

• True

• False