What is Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West?
100
Plains, mountains, plateaus, hills, valleys, etc.
What are landforms?
100
Name the 5 Great Lakes
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie?
100
Causes the changes in Earth's seasons
What is Earth's orbit around the sun?
100
Climate, soil, water, and landforms
What affects how people move or travel and where they settle down to live?
200
Contiguous States
What is 48 states which touch each other?
200
Oldest mountains in North America
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
Any area of water extending into the land from a larger body of water
What is an inlet?
200
Name four things that the climate of a place can affect.
What are: clothes people wear, kinds of activities they do, foods they eat, and the jobs they do?
200
Two things that made it possible for people to live in desert regions of the US
What are air conditioning and irrigation?
300
An area in which many features are similar
What is a region?
300
Central Plains and the Great Plains
What makes up the Interior Plains landform region?
300
The largest inlets of water are called__________.
What are gulfs?
300
Most of the Earth can be divided in four major vegetation regions
What are forest, grassland, desert, and tundra?
300
Half of the land of the US is used for farming. Name three landform regions where farming takes place.
What are Coastal Plains, Interior Plains, and the valleys of the West?
400
The position of one place compared to another place
What is relative location?
400
Starting on the eastern US, name the landform regions going west.
What are: Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Appalachians, Interior Plains, Rocky Mts., Intermountain Region (Great Basin), Mountains of the West Coast
400
A long inlet that separates offshore islands
What is a sound?
400
A word to describe a dry climate, such as found in a desert....
A word to describe a cold, dry region where trees cannot grow...
What are arid and tundra?
400
Soil, plants, water, minerals
What are natural resources?
500
Two ways to measure the size of a nation
What are land area and population?
500
Two ways that the Appalachian and the Rocky Mts. are different
What is Rockies are young mts and the Appalachians are older, and the peaks of the Appalachians are rounded off and not as high because of erosion, while the peaks of the Rockies are sharp and jagged, and are so high that they often have snow on them year round.
500
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river...
Together this stream or river and the larger stream or river make up a...
The land drained by a river system is its.......
What are tributary, river system, and drainage field?
500
Three factors that determine a place's climate.....
What are: distance from oceans or large bodies of water, distance from the equator, and the elevation of the land above sea level.
500
Name three renewable resources and three nonrenewable resources.
Renewable: water, trees, light, and wind
Nonrenewable: ores, minerals, oil, coal, gas