Vocabulary
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river
What is a tributary?
A flat low land along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Coastal Plain?
An area in which many features are similar
What is a region?
Describe the climate in the northeast US
What is cold and wet
Name the 3 largest countries in North America
What are the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
What process wore down the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains over time?
What is erosion?
This state has most of the Great Basin located there
A region's climate is one feature used to describe its
What is environment?
Describe the climate in the southwest US
What is hot and dry?
Describe the geography of the US
Huge area with many landforms: mountains, hills, plains, valleys, deserts, rivers, lakes
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Bodies of water that people build dams across to make reservoirs
What are rivers?
Which region do we live in?
What is the Midwest?
Describe how the climate if the northeast would affect life there
It would be difficult to stay warm and find food in the winter. In the summer the how wet months would be good for growing food.
Describe the climate in the US
Huge area with many different climates: hot, cold, dry, wet, 4 seasons, mostly warm, mostly cool
This part of the Mississippi River is made up of most of the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains.
What is the drainage basin?
In which region will you find deserts?
What is the south west?
Describe how the climate in the southwest affects life there.
The hot and dry weather makes it hard for people to grow food or find fresh water.
What causes the seasons to occur?
As the Earth rotates, it gets different amounts of sunlight on different parts of the planet. The places with more sunlight will be warmer than those without. Depending on location, you could have 4 seasons or be mainly warm or mainly cool.
To help crops grow, farms use this process to move water to a normally dry area
What is irrigation?
Name the 5 great lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Superior, Eerie, and Michigan
What region is Alaska in?
What is the polar region?
The closer you are to the equator the warmer your weather because the sun shines more directly on the Earth at the equator
See Mrs. Fisher for a Latitude/Longitude question
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