1. Chapter 5 Community Environments

2. 5 Regions of the United States
Example Communities and Physical Landforms :
Northeast – Stamford, Connecticut - hills and forests
Southeast – Charleston, South Carolina - wetlands
Midwest – Omaha, Nebraska - flat lands and rivers
Southwest – Tucson, Arizona - canyons and deserts
West – Bozeman, Montana - mountains and rivers

3. 5 Regions Wildlife and plants: Northeast: deer, foxes, and trees
Southeast: blue herons, alligators, and Spanish moss
Midwest: coyotes and grass
Southwest: snakes and cactuses
West: fish, bears, and trees

4. Adapting to new environments
Moving to a new places can make you change the way you do things or change the environment:
Wear warmer clothes
Heat your home
Build irrigation to bring water to fields
Cut down trees to build houses or make land for farming
Build roads and railroads

5. Living in Different Climates
Climate is caused by distance from the equator, nearness to a body of water, and land elevation above sea level
Barrow , Alaska – very cold - far from the equator
Kauai, Hawaii – very warm – close to the equator
Cape Cod , Massachusetts – mild climate – near the ocean
Omaha, Nebraska – colder winters/ warmer summers-far from water
Taos , New Mexico – dry, warm days/ cool nights – high land elevation

6. Pueblo Indians
The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico have adapted to the climate by building their homes out of adobe to keep them warm in winter and cool in summer.

7. Resources
Natural Resources are useful things found in nature. Communities are built and grow quickly where valuable resources are found.
California – gold discovered at Angel’s Camp
- people dug deep mines to find gold
- population grew quickly
Texas - oil discovered in Beaumont
- people drilled wells to find oil

8. Conserving Resources is Important
Ways to conserve our natural resources:
Use less
Don’t waste
Recycle
Reuse
Use them carefully
Think of alternatives

9. Line graphs show changes over time.
Each dot shows an amount at a certain point in time
The line of dots shows increasing and decreasing amounts from day to day, month to month, or year to year
The dots will show you the highest and lowest amounts of change over a certain period of time
Number amounts will be on the side and times will be at the bottom
The graph will have a title that tells you what the graph shows

10. Vocabulary Region Physical environment Climate Landform Ecosystem
Adapt
Adobe
Natural resources
Mineral
Fuel
Conserve
recycle