Get Ready! for Social Studies : GeographyEverything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready! For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects. Geography focuses on major geographic concepts: what geography is, maps and globes, landforms, natural regions (biomes), human movement, human/environmental interaction, and economics. |
Contents
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| 2 | |
Chapter 2 Understanding Maps and Globes | 20 |
Its Land Water and Air | 38 |
Biomes | 56 |
Chapter 5 People and Earth | 70 |
Chapter 6 Geography of the United States by Regions | 86 |
Chapter 7 Geography of the World by Continent | 100 |
Appendix A States of the Union | 117 |
Appendix B Countries of the World | 121 |
Appendix C Atlas | 131 |
Answers to Fact Checkers | 148 |
Index | 149 |
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Get Ready! for Social Studies : Geography: Geography Nancy White,Francine Weinberg Snippet view - 2002 |
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Africa Alaska Amazon River Antarctica Arabic Arctic Circle ARCTIC OCEAN Asia ask your child ATLANTIC OCEAN Australia biome bodies of water called Cape Caribbean Sea chapter Child Needs Child’s Skills climate coast Columbus continent countries crops culture deserts Earth Earth’s surface east English Equator Europe European Evaluating Your Child’s example explorers farming fish French geography glaciers globe grasslands Greek grow Gulf Hawaii help your child Hemisphere India Islands iver kilometers Lake land latitude live longitude Mediterranean Sea meters Mexico Midwest miles million sq mountain range North America North Pole Pacific Ocean Peninsula plains plants and animals PLATEAU population preceding pages questions region River rock sea level South Pole Southeast Southwest Spanish square kilometers thousand tion trees Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn United volcanoes weather wetlands words