Regions of the US
What's a Region?
Northeast
Southeast
Midwest
Southwest
West
100
What two countries are neighbors to the United States?
What are Canada and Mexico?
100
What is the most densely populated U.S. region?
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What is the largest U.S. region?
What is the Northeast?
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What is the West?
100
What is the name of this location (where immigrants arrived in the late 1800s to mid-1900s) from which they then settled into cities near those from their home countries?
Where is Ellis Island?
100
Who is this man, and what is he known for?
Who is Thurgood Marshall? He is know for ending school segregation while a lawyer and becoming the first Black Supreme Court Justice (among many other things).
100
What city became a major business hub for the Midwest, after the creation of the railroads?
Where is Chicago?
100
What states make up the Southwest region?
What are Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas?
100
In what year did Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific, with the help of Sacagawea?
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What was the peak year for Gold Rush immigration to the West?
When was 1805?
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When was 1849?
200
What are the three political levels of government?
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Provide an example for each.
What are national (federal), state, and local (cities and counties)?
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Federal: Mail delivery and passing national laws.
State: Running schools, parks, and colleges.
Local: Managing police, fire, and fixing streets.
200
What does it mean to be interdependent, when talking about regions?
What is regions rely on one another for food and resources; connecting through roadways, railways, and the internet?
200
What were the two most notable Native American tribes to live in this region?
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What Great Lakes border this region?
Who were the Algonquin (coastal tribe) and Iroquois (inland tribe)?
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What are lakes Erie and Ontario?
200
What type of natural landmark makes up over half of the Southeast region?
What is a coastal plain?
200
Why is snowfall particularly heavy in this region during the winter months?
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How do tornadoes form?
What is moisture from the Great Lakes increases snowfall?
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What is warm air from the Gulf of Mexico meets cold northern air over the plains?
200
The U.S. forcibly moved Native American tribes to Oklahoma during the 1830s. Nearly 4,000 deaths were attributed to members of the Cherokee tribe alone. What was this event called?
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
Into what two smaller regions is the West split?
What are the Pacific and Mountain regions?
300
What are the 5 regions of the United States?
What are the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West?
300
What are the four types of regions?
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Explain each!
What are political, physical, economic, and cultural?
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Political: shared government (cities, states).
Physical: shared landforms, climate, or wildlife.
Economic: shared resources or ways to make money.
Cultural: shared language, religion, or traditions.
300
In what Northeastern city was the Declaration of Independence signed, and in what year?
What is Philadelphia in 1776?
300
What states make up the Corn Belt?
What is Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota?
300
This is a picture of what man-made body of water that is used as a ___________________ by people in the Southwest?
What is Lake Mead - which is a reservoir?
400
Provide a comprehensive definition of a region.
What is an area with unique features that can range from the size of a neighborhood to that of continent?
It groups land, climate, and people together to show similarities and differences.
400
What states make up the Northeast region?
What are New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware?
400
What states make up the Southeast?
What are Maryland, Mississippi, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida?
400
What states make up the Midwest?
What are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin?
400
Describe the rain shadow effect!
What is moist air is forced to rise, cool, and release precipitation - leaving the air dry as it descends and warms?
400
What states make up the West?
What are California, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Alaska, and Hawaii?
500
What three types of regional changes were outlined in the chapter? Provide examples for each.
What are -
Human: moving water or building on land.
Natural: fast (volcanoes/floods) or slow (river erosion).
Tech: faster communication makes large regions feels more connected.