Oklahoma Social Studies Weekly- Week 2

American Indians and settlers looked at landforms to describe relative location. Why would they use a landform in the name of a place location?

• It made sense.

• They didn't have maps with longitude and latitude.

• They didn't speak English

• They wanted to.

Gene Autry had a big hit with the song ______.

• Frosty the Snowman

• Jolly Old St. Nicholas

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

• Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Lines running north to south are called lines of _____.

• latidude

• longitude

The Oklahoma border with Kansas is approximately 37* N. This is a line of _______.

• latitude

• longitude

Compare and contrast relative location and absolute location.

• Relative location is where your family is and absolute location is where you live.

• Relative location is way more accurate because it gives you exact location.

• Absolute location is absolutely wrong.

• Relative location is not as accurate, since it does not give an exact location as absolute does. Both can get you where you need to go with directions.

What are physical features?

• new languages

• landforms

• a person's appearance

• the shape of Oklahoma.

A mountain range in Oklahoma is the _______.

• Rocky Mountains

• Coast Range

• Wichita Mountains

• Mounds

What helps you understand the symbols on a map?

• the map scale

• the map legend

• someone else

• the colors