1st Nine Weeks Exam Review

Constructed Response

1. What are the Natural and human causes of coastal erosion?

Natural: waves, hurricanes, global warming, subsidence sinking

Human: Canals for oil and gas; salt water intrusion, levees,

2. Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions

French: Came from France, Canada, and St. Domingue

-Came to find wealth and establish a colony and business; control the Miss. River

-Settled along the Miss. River

-Contribution: Catholic religion; parishes; food; music; language; Napoleonic code

2. Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions

Acadians: Came from Nova Scotia, Canada

-Exiled form homeland for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to British

-Contribution: Catholic religion; Cajun language and food; Cajun music with accordion, fishing and farming

2. Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions

Germans: Came from German areas and Switzerland

-Left poverty and war; given free land

-Contribution: Farming, cooking; breweries

Settled: German Coast, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and St. James Parishes

2. Choose one culture: French, Acadians, Germans, or Africans. Tell why they came, where they settled, contributions

Africans: Came from West Africa and St. Domingo

-Slavery and later, fled slave revolt in St. Domingue

-Contribution: food, African dance and rhythms, Civil Rights, voodoo,

-settled along the Miss. River and New Orleans

Outline Map

Be able to identify:

Border states

4 natural borders (Pearl, Sabine, Miss. Gulf)

Draw path of Miss. River

Label Lakes Pontchartrain, Maurepas, Borgne

Label key cities: Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria, Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge

Geography

1. Absolute location: tells where a point is on the Earth’s surface and why it is there

2. Relative location: tells us how far a point is from other points

3. Latitude: lines of measurement that measures the distance north and south

4. Longitude: lines of measurement that measure distance east and west

5. Prime Meridian: starting point for measuring longitude

6. Equator: starting point for measuring latitude

7. International Date Line: opposite of Prime Meridian that offsets time

8. Degree: unit of measurement9. Meandering streams: rivers that

wind their way back and forth10.Floodplains: flat valley floor

covered by excess water11.Point bars: sediment forms along

the inside of the meander

11.Point bars: sediment that forms in the meander of a stream cutting the curve

12.Deltas: landform shaped like a fan or a bird’s foot

13.Barrier islands: crescent-shaped island that forms after a river abandons its delta,

14.Coastal marshes: wet grasslands along the coast

15.Salt dome: parts of the sea that dried up

16.Cheniers: ridges of high ground in parallel to the coastline

17.Mississippi River: largest river in USA; over 2000 miles

18.Red River: northwest of state; high salt content

19.Atchafalaya River: A river that is a distributary of the Miss.; where the Miss would like to go

20.Bayou Teche: used to be part of the Miss. River; where Acadians settled

21. Bayou Lafourche: used to be part of the Miss. River

22. Oxbow lake: a lake left behind after a point bar cuts the curve of a river

23. Old River Control Structure: a structure used to divert ¼ of the Miss. River and all of the Red River into the Atchafalaya River

24. Morganza Spillway: River control system that sends flood waters to the Atchafalaya to relieve pressure on the Miss. River

25. Bonne Carre Spillway: diverts water to Lake Pontchartrain

26. J. Bennett Johnston: River control system located on the Red River

27.Flood of 1927: Caused from heavy rains and the Mississippi River breaking levees flooding the Miss. River delta

28. LA Wetlands: LA has over 1/3 of the nation’s wetlands

29.0 ° -90°30.0 ° -180 °31.180 ° 32.Increase33.Decrease34.Floodplains, uplands, coastal

marshes35.Plaquemines Parish36.Atchafalaya River37. Mississippi River’s large delta

38.They break, prevent sediment from depositing; prevent land from building

39.wall of water brought in by a hurricane that causes the most damage and deaths

40.Saltwater intrusion41. planting marsh grass, pumping sand,

closing canals, diversion projects

42.Buffer Louisiana from hurricanes; absorb storm surge

43.1 football field

44.Coastal erosion45.Take the path of least resistance

46.Miss. River delta; New Orleans and other places are below sea level; floodplain

47.Architecture, Food, Music, language48.Shotgun, Acadian, Spanish Colonial,

French Creole, American Greek Revival49.Cajun, Jazz, Zydeco50.Sportsman’s Paradise: Region’s inland

location, it was settled by different groups than the rest of LA

51.Acadians/Cajuns settled there along waterways

52.Cajuns

53.Accordion and fiddle

54.Slavery

55.Forced to leave Nova Scotia when they refused oath of allegiance to British

Economics

56.The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

57.Citizens answer the four questions of economics; also known as capitalism and free enterprise

58. Government answers the four questions of economics; also known as communism

59.Tradition and beliefs answer the four questions of economics

60. Combination of market, command, and/or traditional

61.What you choose

62.What you give up

63.What is being produced?

How is it being produced?

How much is being produced?

Who is going to buy it?

64. Pay by the hour

65.a fixed amount of pay

66. amount of goods

67. how bad do you want goods/services

68. See Flow chart

69.Land, labor, capital

70.Rent, interest, wages, and dividends

71.Shortage; limited amount of a good

• Know where major rivers, bayous, and lakes are in Louisiana