The main mountain range in the Eastern part of the United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
The only state in the United States to have the Subarctic and Tundra climates.
What is Alaska?
100
This mineral is mined in the Appalachians and Rockies. It supplies the energy for more than half of the electricity produced in the United States.
What is coal?
100
A territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land.
What is a colony?
100
People who speak two languages are this.
What is bilingual?
200
These lakes make up the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. They are also an important waterway for trade between the United States and Canada.
What are the Great Lakes?
200
The only state in the United States to have the Humid Tropical climate.
What is Hawaii?
200
The trees in the forests of the United States produce this natural resource that is used in constructing buildings.
What is lumber?
200
A large farm that grows mainly one crop. Thousands of enslaved Africans were brought to the colonies and forced to work on these.
What is a plantation?
200
The United States is known as this because of the diversity of cultures, languages, and ethnic groups.
What is "The Great Melting Pot"?
300
North America's largest and most important river. The Ohio and Missouri Rivers are tributaries to this.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
In this region of the United States, people live in a humid continental climate with snowy winters and warm, humid summers.
What is the Northeast?
300
This type of land produces a variety of crops including wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, fruits, and vegetables.
What is farmland?
300
The first settlers in the United States who traveled west were called this.
Who are pioneers?
300
The ancestors of most Americans (roughly 7 out of 10) came from this continent.
What is Europe?
400
A smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
400
In this region, the climate produces milder winters and the warm, humid summers of a humid subtropical climate.
What is the South/Southeast?
400
This natural resource is drilled for in Alaska, California, and Louisiana.
What is oil/gasoline?
400
When delegates met in Philadelphia to create a constitution.
What is September 17, 1787?
400
The act of moving into a new land is known as this.
What is immigration?
500
An area of high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards opposite ends of a continent. The line of high peaks found in the Rocky Mountains would be an example of this.
What is a continental divide?
500
Climates in this region are mostly dry. The Pacific Northwest coast is an exception to this area.
What is the West?
500
Wood from trees in the United States is used to make this everyday school and office product.
What is paper?
500
The term that means, "peace within the country".
What is domestic tranquility?
500
The fact that movies like "Star Wars", sports like baseball, and coffee shops like Starbucks are spread worldwide is an example of the reach of this type of American influence.