Florida Land, Water, Resource Study Guide

VOCABULARY

·         Geography: The study that teaches us about people and places

·         Relative location: Where a place is, compared with one or more other places on Earth.

·         Straight: a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.

·         Continental Shelf: The part of Florida’s peninsula that remained underwater

·         Estuary: A place where freshwater from a river nixes with salt water from the ocean.

·         Panhandle: The part of Florida that stretches west to Alabama. It is called the Panhandle because it sticks out like the handle of a pan.

·         Peninsula: A landform consisting of land surrounded on three sides by water

·         Climate: The kind of weather a place has over a long period of time.

STUDY (You will be provided with a map of Florida)

·         The relative location of Florida to most of the other states in the United States is the Southeast.

·         The two states that border Florida are Alabama and Georgia

·         The straights of Florida connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

·         Florida’s largest natural region is the Coastal Lowlands. It is very flat and has many of the state’s largest cities and savannas.

·         The Western Highlands is a natural region in the panhandle and is home of the highest point in Florida which is near Lakewood in Walton County

·         The Wetlands is a natural region which includes the Everglades

·         Florida’s largest lake is Lake Okeechobee

·         Florida’s longest river is the St. Johns river

·         Phosphate is mainly used to manufacture fertilizer

·         Florida’s underground resources include sand, gravel, and clay

·         Most of Florida’s little used land is in the wetlands

·         The capital of Florida is Tallahassee

·         Winter in southern Florida is warmer than winter in northern Florida

·         Given a description of two regions of Florida, be able to tell how the two regions are alike and different in two to five sentences

·         Be able to use latitude and longitude (latitude comes first and is N or S, longitude is E or W and comes second.)

·         Be able to read a resource and land use map