Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 1 Lesson 1: The American Land (pp. 4-13)
I. The Relationship Between Geography and History
B. Physical geography is the study of the natural world.
C. Human geography explores how people and places influence one another.
II. The Eastern and Southern United States
B. The further south you go along the eastern seaboard the warmer the climate becomes.
C. The dominant vegetation in the eastern and southern United States are forests.
III. The Central Heartland
B. The climate of the central heartland is a climate of extremes--very hot in summer and very cold in winter.
IV. The American West
B. Because of the size of the West and the variety of elevation, there is a great variety of climates there.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Geography is the place where history happens.
A.The eastern portion of the United States is made up of the Coastal Plains, the Piedmont, and the Appalachian Highlands.
A. Most of the central heartland of the United States is a prairie, an expanse of flat or rolling grassland.
A. The western United States has three physical regions: the Rocky Mountains, the Intermountain region, and the Pacific Coast.
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