1 st Nine Weeks Exam Review

Constructed Response 1.What are the Natural and human causes of coastal erosion? Natural: waves, hurricanes, global warming, subsidence sinking Human: Canals for oil and gas; salt water intrusion, levees,

2.Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions French: Came from France, Canada, and St. Domingue -Came to find wealth and establish a colony and business; control the Miss. River -Settled along the Miss. River -Contribution: Catholic religion; parishes; food; music; language; Napoleonic code

2.Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions Acadians: Came from Nova Scotia, Canada -Exiled form homeland for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to British -Contribution: Catholic religion; Cajun language and food; Cajun music with accordion, fishing and farming

2.Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions Germans: Came from German areas and Switzerland -Left poverty and war; given free land -Contribution: Farming, cooking; breweries Settled: German Coast, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and St. James Parishes

2.Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions Africans: Came from West Africa and St. Domingo -Slavery and later, fled slave revolt in St. Domingue -Contribution: food, African dance and rhythms, Civil Rights, voodoo, -settled along the Miss. River and New Orleans

Outline Map Be able to identify: Border states 4 natural borders (Pearl, Sabine, Miss. Gulf) Draw path of Miss. River Label Lakes Pontchartrain, Maurepas, Borgne Label key cities: Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria, Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge

Geography

1.Absolute location: tells where a point is on the Earth’s surface and why it is there 2.Relative location: tells us how far a point is from other points 3.Latitude: lines of measurement that measures the distance north and south 4.Longitude: lines of measurement that measure distance east and west 5.Prime Meridian: starting point for measuring longitude 6.Equator: starting point for measuring latitude

7.International Date Line: opposite of Prime Meridian that offsets time 8.Degree: unit of measurement 9.Meandering streams: rivers that wind their way back and forth 10.Floodplains: flat valley floor covered by excess water 11.Point bars: sediment forms along the inside of the meander

11.Point bars: sediment that forms in the meander of a stream cutting the curve 12.Deltas: landform shaped like a fan or a bird’s foot 13.Barrier islands: crescent-shaped island that forms after a river abandons its delta, 14.Coastal marshes: wet grasslands along the coast 15.Salt dome: parts of the sea that dried up

16.Cheniers: ridges of high ground in parallel to the coastline 17.Mississippi River: largest river in USA; over 2000 miles 18.Red River: northwest of state; high salt content 19.Atchafalaya River: A river that is a distributary of the Miss.; where the Miss would like to go 20.Bayou Teche: used to be part of the Miss. River; where Acadians settled

21.Bayou Lafourche: used to be part of the Miss. River 22.Oxbow lake: a lake left behind after a point bar cuts the curve of a river 23.Old River Control Structure: a structure used to divert ¼ of the Miss. River and all of the Red River into the Atchafalaya River 24.Morganza Spillway: River control system that sends flood waters to the Atchafalaya to relieve pressure on the Miss. River 25.Bonne Carre Spillway: diverts water to Lake Pontchartrain 26.J. Bennett Johnston: River control system located on the Red River

27.Flood of 1927: Caused from heavy rains and the Mississippi River breaking levees flooding the Miss. River delta 28. LA Wetlands: LA has over 1/3 of the nation’s wetlands

29.0 ° -90° 30.0 ° -180 ° ° 32.Increase 33.Decrease 34.Floodplains, uplands, coastal marshes 35.Plaquemines Parish 36.Atchafalaya River 37. Mississippi River’s large delta

38.They break, prevent sediment from depositing; prevent land from building 39.wall of water brought in by a hurricane that causes the most damage and deaths 40.Saltwater intrusion 41. planting marsh grass, pumping sand, closing canals, diversion projects 42.Buffer Louisiana from hurricanes; absorb storm surge 43.1 football field

44.Coastal erosion 45.Take the path of least resistance 46.Miss. River delta; New Orleans and other places are below sea level; floodplain 47.Architecture, Food, Music, language 48.Shotgun, Acadian, Spanish Colonial, French Creole, American Greek Revival 49.Cajun, Jazz, Zydeco 50.Sportsman’s Paradise: Region’s inland location, it was settled by different groups than the rest of LA

51.Acadians/Cajuns settled there along waterways 52.Cajuns 53.Accordion and fiddle 54.Slavery 55.Forced to leave Nova Scotia when they refused oath of allegiance to British

Economics 56.The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services 57.Citizens answer the four questions of economics; also known as capitalism and free enterprise 58. Government answers the four questions of economics; also known as communism

59.Tradition and beliefs answer the four questions of economics 60. Combination of market, command, and/or traditional 61.What you choose 62.What you give up 63.What is being produced? How is it being produced? How much is being produced? Who is going to buy it?

64. Pay by the hour 65.a fixed amount of pay 66. amount of goods 67. how bad do you want goods/services 68. See Flow chart 69.Land, labor, capital 70.Rent, interest, wages, and dividends 71.Shortage; limited amount of a good

Know where major rivers, bayous, and lakes are in Louisiana