States and Regions
An area in which many features are similar.
What is region?
A region that has similar landforms throughout.
What is landform region?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
The height of the land in relation to sea level.
What is elevation?
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is natural resource?
A place where it is compared to other places.
What is relative location?
The kind of weather a place has over time.
What is climate?
The land drained by a river system.
What is a Basin?
Resources that can be made again by people or nature.
What is renewable resources?
When you are closer to this, the hotter it is.
The gradual wearing away of Earth's surface.
The coastal plain is flat low land by this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Describe the climate of the Southwest.
What is the dry desert, with a short and rainy season?
Resources that cannot be made again by people, or resources that would take thousands of years for nature to replace.
What is nonrenewable resources?
Describe the Geography and Climate of the United Sates.
What is large land with variety of landforms and diverse climates?
The surroundings in which people, plants and animals live.
The five Great Lakes.
What is Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario?
Explain how the sun causes seasons to occur.
What is parts of the earth receive different amounts of sunlight and heat at different times of the year and in some places they are more noticeable then others? Answers may vary.
Use of canals, ditches, or pipes to move water.
What is irrigation?
Definition of latitude and longitude.
The Great Basin is made up of 6 states.
What is Nevada, Utah, Oregon, California, Wyoming, and Idaho?
A place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids.
What is a fall line?
A cold, dry region where trees cannot grow.
What is a tundra?
The dam we talked about.
What is the Hoover Dam?