G4 Unit 2 Social Studies

Question 1

What is absolute location?

Answer 1

the location of a point on the Earth using a grid system. One example of this would be a street address.

Question 2

Which continent is the United States located on?

Answer 2

North America

Question 3

Which two hemispheres is the United States located in?

Answer 3

Western and Northern

Question 4

What is the Equator?

Answer 4

imaginary line of latitude around the center of the Earth that divides it into the Northern and Southern hemispheres

Question 5

What is the Prime Meridian?

Answer 5

imaginary line of longitude that divides the Earth into the Western and Eastern hemispheres

Question 6

What is a physical characteristic?

Answer 6

geographic features that were not made by humans. For example - landforms like mountains and plateaus and bodies of water

Question 7

What are some examples of human characteristics?

Answer 7

Cities, highways, bridges, and buildings

Question 8

What are some examples of physical characteristics?

Answer 8

Mountains, the Great Lakes, rivers, sand dunes

Question 9

True or false - Human characteristics are often closely connected to physical characteristics. For example, cities are often located near bodies of water.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What is the name of a map that shows the number of people living in a certain area?

Answer 10

Population density map

Question 11

What is climate?

Answer 11

the weather of a place over a long period of time, includes the temperature and precipitation of a region

Question 12

True or False - Elevation has a large effect on the climate of an area

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What is population density?

Answer 13

the number of people living in a certain area

Question 14

What is elevation?

Answer 14

How high a place is above sea level

Question 15

What is a region?

Answer 15

an area with at least one characteristic that sets it apart from other areas

Question 16

Where would you most likely find a city: a desert, on top of a mountain, near a coastline, or near a canyon?

Answer 16

near a coastline

Question 17

What are political boundaries?

Answer 17

the imaginary lines that divide each of the states in the United States

Question 18

True or False - There is only one way to divide the United States into regions.

Answer 18

False, there are many different ways to divide the U.S. into regions

Question 19

Which hemispheres is Belle River Elementary located in?

Answer 19

Northern and Western

Question 20

What did we learn about movement?

Answer 20

it is a theme that helps us understand how places are connected and explains how and why people, goods, and ideas move