4th Grade Unit 1

Question 1

Human characteristics

Answer 1

Features created by humans

Question 2

Relative location

Answer 2

Where a place is in relation to one or more other places on earth

Question 3

Natural regions

Answer 3

A region made up of places that share the same kinds of physical features, such as land, elevation, climates, or bodies of water.

Question 4

Plain

Answer 4

An area of flat land

Question 5

Natural resource

Answer 5

Something found in nature such as water soil or minerals that people can use to meet their needs.

Question 6

Tribes

Answer 6

A group of people who share the same language, land and leaders

Question 7

Modify

Answer 7

To change

Question 8

Barter

Answer 8

TO trade goods usually without using money

Question 9

Sinkhole

Answer 9

A large bowl shaped hole that forms when limestone layers above underground holes Collapse

Question 10

Culture

Answer 10

The way of life of a group of people

Question 11

Fossil fuel

Answer 11

Animal and plant remains that over millions of years have change to form Cole, oil and gas; which are used for heat for energy

Question 12

Scarcity

Answer 12

The lack of resources, product, goods or services that people want.

Question 13

Agriculture

Answer 13

Farming

Question 14

What are the six Kentucky natural regions?

Answer 14

1. is the Bluegrass region
2. Knobs region
3. Eastern Kentucky coalfields
4. Mississippian plateau region
5. The Western Kentucky Coal fields
6. The Mississippi embayment region

Question 15

Name two things about the Bluegrass region

Answer 15

Rolling hills and flatland

Divided into two parts

Question 16

Name two things about the knobs region

Answer 16

Smallest region

Cone shaped Hills called knobs

Question 17

Name three things about the eastern Kentucky Coal fields

Answer 17

Coal deposits
Highest elevation which is Blackmountain at 4145 feet
And the coldest region

Question 18

Name two things about the Mississippi plateau region

Answer 18

Largest region

Has caves and sinkholes

Question 19

Name two things about the Western Kentucky coal field

Answer 19

Has coal deposits

Has fertile farmland

Question 20

Name two things about the Mississippi embayment region

Answer 20

Has a low lands and swamps

Was called the Jackson purchase

Question 21

Identify the important natural resources in Kentucky and how they are used there are four of them can you name them

Answer 21

Coal, water, forest and soil

Question 22

How do we use Coal

Answer 22

For electricity

Question 23

How do we use water

Answer 23

For drinking, Washington, farming, and transportation

Question 24

How do we use Forest

Answer 24

Paper, and wood for buildings

Question 25

How do you use soil

Answer 25

For farming to build for roads and cities

Question 26

Why did Native Americans in Kentucky settle along rivers

Answer 26

They use rivers were drinking, washing, transportation, farming, and fishing

Question 27

What are some examples of physical characteristics

Answer 27

Rivers, Forest, Hills, mountains, knobs, valleys, plains and caves

Question 28

What are examples of human characteristics

Answer 28

Reservoirs, roads, farms, buildings, cities, bridges, tunnels

Question 29

Why is conservation important

Answer 29

Our resources are limited and we may run out Someday so we should practice conservation

Question 30

How do people modify the land

Answer 30

They change the land by farming, building, with bridges, roads and cities, coal mining and building dams

Question 31

Which way do Lines run for longitude

Answer 31

Up and down north to south or pole to pole

Question 32

Which ways the lines run for latitude

Answer 32

East to west or parallel to the equator

Question 33

What hemispheres is Kentucky in

Answer 33

Kentucky is in the northern hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere

Question 34

What continent is Kentucky on

Answer 34

North America

Question 35

What region of North America is Kentucky in

Answer 35

It is in the south east region of United States

Question 36

What are Kentucky's physical characteristics

Answer 36

Grasslands, mountains, Forest, rivers, and lakes

Question 37

The state is rich in natural resources what are they

Answer 37

Kentucky's resources include land, minerals, and water

Question 38

What were Kentucky's earliest people called

Answer 38

Hunters and gatherers

Question 39

How many years ago did they arrive

Answer 39

12,000 years ago

Question 40

About 3000 years ago people big Kentucky began doing what

Answer 40

Growing crops and building villages

Question 41

The Adena and Mississippians were called what

Answer 41

Mound builders

Question 42

What did different native Americans develop

Answer 42

Culture and tribes

Question 43

Name three Indian groups that lived in different parts of Kentucky

Answer 43

The Cherokee the Chicksaw and the Shawnee

Question 44

In what region of United States is Kentucky located

Answer 44

The south east region

Question 45

What is a natural resource

Answer 45

Something found in nature that people can use

Question 46

What happened about 3000 years ago

Answer 46

People began to farm in Kentucky

Question 47

What is culture

Answer 47

Hey groups way of life

Question 48

What is Kentucky's location relative to Canada

Answer 48

South

Question 49

In what areas of Kentucky did most early settlers choose to live

Answer 49

Near the rivers

Question 50

In what way do farmers use the land as a natural resource

Answer 50

To grow crops and raising animals

Question 51

What is one way in which people in present-day Kentucky have modified the land

Answer 51

Coal mining and building cities

Question 52

How did the lives of early people in Kentucky change when large animals became extinct

Answer 52

They had to work harder together food they had to plant crops

Question 53

What crops did the Shawnee grow

Answer 53

Squash and corn

Question 54

Which of the following is a human characteristic of the Appalachia

Answer 54

Music

Question 55

Which physical characteristic is found in the Mississippi embayment region

Answer 55

Swamps

Question 56

Who were Kentucky's earliest people

Answer 56

The Paleo Indians

Question 57

Which of the following did early people in Kentucky get by bartering

Answer 57

Copper

Question 58

How did the physical characteristics affect the pattern of the settlement in Kentucky

Answer 58

Settlements were shaped by the rivers

Question 59

In what ways of the Native Americans Way of life alike and different from how the people living Kentucky today

Answer 59

They are alike because all people have their own culture and they are different because Native Americans did not have any electricity or running water

Question 60

Physical characteristics

Answer 60

Feature created by nature