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100
This letter E represents this geographic feature
What is Canada
100
This lake is the only one of the Great Lakes that is entirely within the boundaries of the US
What is Lake Michigan?
100
Sandy plains that stretch inland from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico shores.
What is Coastal Plains?
100
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located in this State
What is West Virginia?
100
These two countries have a greater population than the US
What are China and India?
200
D represents this place geographic feature
What is Mexico?
200
This river forms a large part of the southern border of the United States
What is the Rio Grande?
200
An area of many rivers at the Eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Piedmont?
200
This current flows across the northwest coast of North America, bringing plentiful rains
What is Japanese Current
200
Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia are harbors in this coastal plain
What is Atlantic
300
A represents this geographic feature
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This place found it's name from having many waterfalls where the rivers drop from the Piedmont to the Coastal Plains
What is the Fall Line?
300
this extends from Eastern Canada into Northern Alabama.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
About 80% of Americans live in this type of area
What is urban?
300
This philosophical movement in Europe spawned the idea of political liberty
What is the Enlightenment?
400
J Represents this geographic feature
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This place describes the area where waters flowing down the eastern side of the mountains flow to the Atlantic Ocean and those flowing down the western side flow into either the Great Lakes or the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Eastern Continental Divide?
400
These are rolling hills that stretch about 1,000 miles across America's heartland.
What is Central Plains?
400
This person broke the professional baseball's color barrier
Who is Jackie Robinson
400
This term expresses the area between cities and rural areas
What is suburb?
500
G Represents this geographic feature
What is the Gulf Of Mexico?
500
Piedmont means this
What is "foothills"
500
This is called the "Great American Desert" by early pioneers.
What is the "Great Plains"
500
______________ and ____________ are gifts from God.
What are freedom and liberty?
500
This region includes Mount Whitney and California's Central Valley
What is Pacific Mountain Ranges?
600
B represents this geographic feature
What is Rocky Mountains?
600
This is an active volcano in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest
What is Mount St. Helen?
600
This is presented as the greatest obstacle to westward expansion
What is the Rocky Mountains?
600
An average of this many people cross the U.S. / Canada border everyday
What is 300,000 people?
600
this core value reveals the independant American spirit
what is Individualism?
700
"C" represents this geographic feature
What is the Rio Grande?
700
This state is the largest in area of the "lower 48 states"
What is Texas?
700
These are the terrible storms that move in from over the North Atlantic
What is nor'easters?
700
This country is the leading trading partner with America.
What is Canada?
700
this core value is the ability to choose what is right and help others under oppression
What is freedom?
800
"F" represents this geographic feature
What is the Mississippi?
800
The southern third of the United States, from the Carolinas to California
What is the "Sun Belt"
800
This is a lowland area that includes canyons and unusual rock formations in much of Nevada and Utah.
What is the Great Basin?
800
The prevailing wind patterns in North America generally begin in the ____________and move across the continent.
What is west?
800
This is the concept that everyone has the same opportunity to make something of themselves
What is equality?
900
"H" represents this geographic feature
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
900
This state receives its largest income from agriculture
What is California?
900
This includes the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coastal Ranges
What is the Pacific Mountain Ranges?
900
Snowstorms which dump huge amounts of snow picked up by crossing bodies of water in the Midwest
What are "lake effect snows?"
900
this is core value is the revealed by how the American people continued in their expansion westward and through ingenuity and industrialism
What is growth?
1000
I represents this place............
What is St. Lawrence River
1000
This mountain is the tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountains
What is Mount Elbert?
1000
This mountain is the highest point in North America
What is Mt. McKinley?
1000
These are violent storms, especially in the border states divide Northern and Southern states.
What are tornados.
1000
this includes Florida's Everglades and Virginia's dismal Swamp
what is Central Plains