Dust Bowl Project
Vocabulary
Agriculture: The process of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.
Climate: The temperature, winds, and humidity patterns occurring year after year. For example, “Arizona has a desert climate. It’s almost always very dry and gets extremely hot on summer days.”
Environment: All the things and conditions that surround a person, animal, plant or object and affect its health, growth, development, or character in any way.
Geography: The science that deals with the location of living and nonliving things on Earth and the way they affect one another.
International Space Station: A spacecraft orbiting the Earth in which microgravity experiments are performed. Sixteen countries contribute to these scientific studies.
Landform: A natural feature of a land surface (e.g., mountains, glaciers, plains, rivers)
Pollution: The result or process of spoiling a place (the action of polluting) with substances those aren’t normally present.
• Natural examples: smoke and ash fall.
• Human-made examples: acid rain; factory and human waste disposed of in bodies of water.
Satellite: An object that orbits the Earth, moon, or other heavenly body. Our moon is a satellite of the Earth.
Urban Development: The process of planning, building, and developing (adding to) a city.
Weather: The state of the atmosphere for a short time (e.g., temperature, humidity, cloudiness, rain, hurricanes, tornados, snowfall). For example, “The weather report says it will be rainy and cold tomorrow.”
Climate: The temperature, winds, and humidity patterns occurring year after year. For example, “Arizona has a desert climate. It’s almost always very dry and gets extremely hot on summer days.”
Environment: All the things and conditions that surround a person, animal, plant or object and affect its health, growth, development, or character in any way.
Geography: The science that deals with the location of living and nonliving things on Earth and the way they affect one another.
International Space Station: A spacecraft orbiting the Earth in which microgravity experiments are performed. Sixteen countries contribute to these scientific studies.
Landform: A natural feature of a land surface (e.g., mountains, glaciers, plains, rivers)
Pollution: The result or process of spoiling a place (the action of polluting) with substances those aren’t normally present.
• Natural examples: smoke and ash fall.
• Human-made examples: acid rain; factory and human waste disposed of in bodies of water.
Satellite: An object that orbits the Earth, moon, or other heavenly body. Our moon is a satellite of the Earth.
Urban Development: The process of planning, building, and developing (adding to) a city.
Weather: The state of the atmosphere for a short time (e.g., temperature, humidity, cloudiness, rain, hurricanes, tornados, snowfall). For example, “The weather report says it will be rainy and cold tomorrow.”