Vocabulary
Land Use and Resources (Needs map)
Regions of North America
Regions
Government
100

What is the vocabulary term that means depending on one another for resources or products?

Interdependent

100

Is zinc mined more in the eastern or western part of Montana?

Western

100

What country is to the north of the United States?

Canada

100

What type of region is a place where people share a government?

Political region

100

Nearly every state is divided into political regions called____.

Counties

200

This is a vocabulary term that means change.

Modify

200

Is there more tourism in the northern or southern half of Montana?

Southern

200

What country is south of the United States?

Mexico

200

What region is an area in which people share certain ways of life?

Cultural region

200

What are the 3 levels of government in the United States?

Federal, State, and Local

300

What is a vocabulary word that means a flat, tree-less plain that stays mostly frozen?

Tundra

300

Are more sugar beets grown in the eastern or western half of the state?

Eastern

300

What is a region that is made up of a narrow strip of land that connects North and South America?

Central America

300

Which type of regions are based on natural features such as landforms, climates, rivers, or the kinds of wildlife in the area?

Physical regions

300

What is the town or city that is the center of county's government called?

County seat

400

What is the vocabulary term that describes a territory that governs itself?

Commonwealth

400

Are there more pigs or cattle produced in Montana?

Cooooows

400

What is a huge island off the northeast coast of Canada?

Greenland

400

Into how many large regions does your textbook group all the states?

Five

400

Into what kinds of political regions is Mexico divided into?

States

500

What is a vocabulary term that means a group of people that is from the same country, of the same race, or with a shared culture?

Ethnic group

500

Are there more sheep or wheat produced in Montana?

Wheat

500

What is the name of hundreds of islands off the east coast of Central America?

The Carribean islands
500

What two political regions share the worlds' longest unprotected boarder?

Canada and United States

500

The federal governent can make agreements between groups or countries called ______.

Treaties

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