Study guide for SS test on Oct. 8
Everything You Need to Know for Your SS test on Oct. 8th
Regions and Counties Study Guide:
Part 1: You will be given a sentence and asked to tell what region is being described in the sentence.
Part 2: You will be given a word bank and asked to fill in sentences about different facts of each region.
Part 3: You will be given two questions that you need to write short answers for. The two topics to study for this portion of the test are: information of the fault line and give reasons about why you would like to live in a certain region of Maryland.
Part 4: You will need to list all 23 counties in Maryland. I will give you the first letter of each county and you need to name it.
Part 5: I will ask you to identify the three regions of Maryland and identify the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay on a map.
How to study:
Look at the note sheet we took in class.
Look at the list and map of the counties in Maryland.
Counties:
Washington Allegany Garrett Howard
Carroll Frederick Harford Baltimore
Montgomery Cecil Charles Calvert
Kent Prince George’s Talbot Queen Anne
Caroline Anne Arundel St. Mary Dorchester
Wicomico Worcester Somerset
Notes from Class:
Notes on the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Chesapeake Bay-largest body of water in region
Cities: Bowie, Ocean City, Salisbury, Chestertown, Annapolis
Natural Features: Oceans, Bay, Beaches, Sand Dunes, wetlands
Lowest elevation of all three regions
Brackish Water: water that is ½ salt water and ½ fresh water
This region is in the eastern and southern part of MD
Calvert Cliffs: close to Chesapeake Bay, can find fossils there and it was once covered by the ocean
Warmest region
Crabs, oysters and clams are in the Bay
Assateague Island: has wild horses
Ocean City is MD’s only ocean resort
Tobacco farming is popular in Southern MD and it has been for more than 300 years
Susquehanna River flows into the northern part of the Bay
Delmarva Peninsula is the land between the Bay and the Ocean, Virginia is at the southern tip
Plain: low, flat land
Notes on the Piedmont Plateau
Region is in the central part of Maryland
Cities: Frederick, Rockville, Gaithersburg
Frederick County is located in this region
Fall Line-imaginary line connecting waterfalls where the land has the last steep drop, this line separates the region from the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Plateau: high, leveled land
Notes on the Appalachian Region
Coldest region in MD
Includes Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties
Deep Creek Lake is in this region
Backbone Mt. is in this region.
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