Geography is coming to an end for your third grader. Please use the study guide below to help him/her study for the final geography test.
- What is Geography? The study of a place
- Cardinal Directions: North, South, East, and West
Michigan Regions:
- Upper Peninsula/Lower Peninsula
- Michigan is part of “The Great Lakes Region” which every state in this region touches at least one great lake.
- Michigan Land Forms: Mountains, sand dunes, peninsulas, and islands.
- Michigan’s Natural Resources: Forests, water, minerals such as iron ore, limestone, and copper, natural gas and oil, and fertile soil.
- The Great Lakes (Spelling Counts) Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior
- What is a peninsula? A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
- Michigan Movement:
- Goods: move by boats, trucks, planes, and trains
- People: move by cars, bus, trucks, taxi, trains, planes
- Ideas: U.s. Mail, email, phone, text, newspapers, radio, television
- Michigan Human Characteristics: light houses, bridges, highways, cities
- Michigan Natural Characteristics: bays, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, peninsulas, forests, mountains, sand dunes
- How do people adapt to Michigan? : peaked roofs for snow and rainfall, furnaces for winter and air conditioning for summer, screens for bugs, coats for cooler weather.
- Be able to locate these locations on a Michigan map: Porcupine Mountains, Upper Peninsula, Lower Peninsula, Mackinac Bridge, Lansing, Lake Michigan, Hudsonsville, Saginaw Bay.
