Lesson 1: Geography of the United States

What does climate mean?

• a tool for finding directions

• weather patterns, such as those in temperature, rainfall, and wind, measured over time in an area

• a sphere that is the model of earth

• types of plants in a region

What is a compass?

• organizations that make up laws

• the study of Earth and its people

• type of plants in a region

• a tool used for finding directions

What does geography mean?

• a tool used to find directions

• weather patterns

• the study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them

• types of plants in a region

A globe is ___________.

• a sphere that is a model of Earth and most accurately represents it

• a tool to find directions

• a type of plant

• a book

What is government?

• an imaginary line that runs east to west

• types of plants found in a region

• the organization that makes the laws in a country, state, or community and has the power to enforce them

• weather patterns

What does landform mean?

• a tool to find directions

• a physical feature on Earth’s surface such as a mountain or a plain

• an imaginary line that runs north to south

• types of plants

What is latitude?

• type of plant

• an imaginary line called a parallel that runs west and east around Earth

• a tool for directions

• study of the Earth and its people

What is longitude?

• an imaginary line called a meridian that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole

• types of plants

• a tool for finding directions

• the study of Earth and its people

What does physical feature mean?

• an imaginary line that runs north to south

• types of plants

• an imaginary line that runs east to west

• a part of Earth’s surface including landmasses and bodies of water

What is vegetation?

• a tool for finding directions

• the types of plants in an area or a region

• an imaginary line that runs north to south

• the study of Earth and its people