Geography and More
How many states are in the contiguous United States?
What is 48 states?
This means to send goods to other countries for aid or profit.
What is export?
This is a system of several mountain ranges that often run parallel to one another.
What is a cordillera?
This is a fee demanded by the Government to pay for public services.
What is a tax?
What does it mean to build settlements and develop trade in lands they controlled.
What is to colonize?
What lies East of the Rocky Mountains and make up the center of North America?
What are the Great Plains?
This is the business of producing crops to sell on large farms.
What is commercial agriculture?
This is the area between the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada Mountains.
What is the Great Basin?
What month, day, year was the declaration of independence written?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These were people sent by the Roman Catholic church to convince Native Americans to accept Christianity.
What are missionaries?
What are Plateaus?
The Gulf of Mexico produces major deposits of?
What is Oil?
This is a barrier that controls the flow of water, can help with a water shortage.
What is a dam?
What is the longest River in North America?
What is the Mississippi River?
This were persistent winds in the area that stirred up great clouds of dry, soil, dust.
What is the dust bowl?
What state is the Hoover Dam in?
What is Nevada?
The City of Topeka is in which state?
What is Kansas?
FUN QUESTION: What is the Capital of Texas?
What is Austin, Texas?
What is air that reaches the land east of the mountains and releases moisture on Western slopes.
What is the Rain Shadow Effect?
What are the 5 basic principles of the US Government?
What is Separation of Powers, Federalism, Checks and Balances, Limited Government, Democracy?