Regions
A strong storm with powerful winds and heavy rain
What is a hurricane?
of or about cities or towns
What is urban?
Region that Niagara Falls is in
What is Northeast Region
A barrier to keep water from going onto the land
What is a levee?
This state has two nicknames, "North Star State" and "Land of 10,000 Lakes"
What is a Minnesota?
In the countryside; outside of a town or city
What is rural?
Capital of Colorado
What is Denver?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
A long period of little or no rainfall
What is a drought?
the second largest continent
What is Africa
Things found in nature that are useful to people
What are natural resources?
Activities where money is exchanged, such as buying and selling population
What is commerce?
the mountain range that passes through northern New Mexico and into Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
What are the Rocky Mountains?
A mostly flat and grassy region of western North America; a large area of plains west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains
What are the great plains?
A group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean and the 5oth state added to the US.
What is Hawai'i?
A technique to increase soil fertility by planting different crops on the same land year after year
What is rotation?
An area where water lies on or near the surface of the ground, as a swamp or marsh
What is a wetland?