Daily Geography Week 36 Day 1

1. People in the Netherlands have built polders for hundreds of years. What is a polder? Sudan is the country with the largest land area on which continent? Land reclaimed from a sea or lake. Daily GeographyWeek 36Day 1 • Africa

2. What is a climograph? Excluding Canada and Mexico, which country is closest to the United States? A combination line and bar graph showing average monthly temperature (line) and average monthly rainfall (bars) for a given place. Daily GeographyWeek 36Day 2 • Russia

3. What is a watershed? Which four lines mark the middle latitudes? All the area drained by a river and its tributaries Daily GeographyWeek 36Day 3 • Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle; Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle

4. Which city is farther south: Havana, Cuba, or Mumbai (Bombay), India? In the eastern United States, in the Piedmont area between the Appalachians and the coastal plain, is the fall line. What is it? Mumbai, India Daily GeographyWeek 36Day 4 • A line connecting the waterfalls on the rivers flowing from the highlands to the coast. A sudden change in elevation creates the falls

5. The Aztecs of Mexico built chinampas in the lake surrounding their capital, Tenochtitlan. What are chinampas? How are they like polders? How are they different? Chinampas are islands made of reeds and other plants covered with mud scooped from the lake bottom. They are like polders in that they are land created by people. They are different because Aztecs built up chinampas rather than draining out the water. On the Islands, the Aztecs grew crops that flourished in the rich lake-bottom soil. Daily GeographyWeek 36Day 5