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4th Grade Unit 1 Flashcards

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Human characteristics

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Features created by humans

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Relative location

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

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Natural regions

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

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Plain

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An area of flat land

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Natural resource

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

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Tribes

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

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Modify

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To change

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Barter

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TO trade goods usually without using money

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Sinkhole

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

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Culture

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The way of life of a group of people

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Fossil fuel

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

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Scarcity

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

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Agriculture

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Farming

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What are the six Kentucky natural regions?

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  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
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Name two things about the Bluegrass region

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Rolling hills and flatland

Divided into two parts

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Name two things about the knobs region

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Smallest region

Cone shaped Hills called knobs

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Name three things about the eastern Kentucky Coal fields

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

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Name two things about the Mississippi plateau region

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Largest region

Has caves and sinkholes

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Name two things about the Western Kentucky coal field

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Has coal deposits

Has fertile farmland

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Name two things about the Mississippi embayment region

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Has a low lands and swamps

Was called the Jackson purchase

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

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Coal, water, forest and soil

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How do we use Coal

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For electricity

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How do we use water

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For drinking, Washington, farming, and transportation

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How do we use Forest

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Paper, and wood for buildings

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How do you use soil

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For farming to build for roads and cities

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Why did Native Americans in Kentucky settle along rivers

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

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What are some examples of physical characteristics

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

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What are examples of human characteristics

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

29
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Why is conservation important

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

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How do people modify the land

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

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Which way do Lines run for longitude

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Up and down north to south or pole to pole

32
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Which ways the lines run for latitude

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East to west or parallel to the equator

33
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What hemispheres is Kentucky in

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Kentucky is in the northern hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere

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What continent is Kentucky on

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North America

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What region of North America is Kentucky in

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It is in the south east region of United States

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What are Kentucky’s physical characteristics

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Grasslands, mountains, Forest, rivers, and lakes

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The state is rich in natural resources what are they

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Kentucky’s resources include land, minerals, and water

38
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What were Kentucky’s earliest people called

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Hunters and gatherers

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How many years ago did they arrive

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12,000 years ago

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About 3000 years ago people big Kentucky began doing what

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Growing crops and building villages

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The Adena and Mississippians were called what

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Mound builders

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What did different native Americans develop

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Culture and tribes

43
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Name three Indian groups that lived in different parts of Kentucky

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The Cherokee the Chicksaw and the Shawnee

44
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In what region of United States is Kentucky located

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The south east region

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What is a natural resource

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Something found in nature that people can use

46
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What happened about 3000 years ago

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People began to farm in Kentucky

47
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What is culture

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Hey groups way of life

48
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What is Kentucky’s location relative to Canada

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South

49
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In what areas of Kentucky did most early settlers choose to live

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Near the rivers

50
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In what way do farmers use the land as a natural resource

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To grow crops and raising animals

51
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What is one way in which people in present-day Kentucky have modified the land

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Coal mining and building cities

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

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

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What crops did the Shawnee grow

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Squash and corn

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Which of the following is a human characteristic of the Appalachia

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Music

55
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Which physical characteristic is found in the Mississippi embayment region

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Swamps

56
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Who were Kentucky’s earliest people

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The Paleo Indians

57
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Which of the following did early people in Kentucky get by bartering

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Copper

58
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How did the physical characteristics affect the pattern of the settlement in Kentucky

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Settlements were shaped by the rivers

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

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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

60
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Physical characteristics

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Feature created by nature

Lilly Social Studies 4th (8 decks)

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