Harcourt 5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 1 Test

a river and its tributaries

• land use

• millennium

• river system

• drainage basin

resources that cannot be made again by people or nature

• line of longitude

• nonrenewable resource

• landform region

• renewable resource

the gradual wearing away of the earth's surface

• irrigation

• erosion

• region

• elevation

the exact location of a place

• absolute location

• relative location

• natural vegetation

• population

a region that has similar landforms throughout

• renewable resource

• landform region

• line of longitude

• natural vegetation

the height of land in relation to sea level

• elevation

• population

• erosion

• climate

a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river

• tributary

• prairie

• meridian

• tundra

a period of 100 years

• millennium

• decade

• climate

• century

using less energy to do the same tasks

• continent

• elevation

• efficiency

• population

a place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids

• fall line

• parallel

• prairie

• meridian