Vocabulary
A thick sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.
What is a glacier?
This type of erosion smooths out rough surfaces, carved depressions and deep trenches.
What is glacier erosion?
United States, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, the Central American Countries, and the Caribbean Islands.
What is the countries in the continent of North America?
The Grand Canyon is found in this region.
What is the Intermountain Region?
This theme of social studies is the study of how people manage their resources.
What is economy?
Mountains, valleys, and plateaus are all features of the Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
This river created the Grand Canyon over 5 million years ago.
What is the Colorado River?
We study the United States and Canada separate from Mexico because of this difference.
What is cultural heritage?
The mountain range is 400 million years old.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This term is used when it is 4:00 P.M. in California and 7:00 P.M. in Pennsylvania.
What are different time zones?
Wind, rivers, and rain wear away soil and stone through this process.
What is erosion?
This hurricane in 2005 caused some land areas to be permanently covered with water.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The area between to the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer is know for this type of climate.
What is temperate?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
These are the three types of resources.
What are natural, human, and capital resources?
Mississippi, Missouri, and the Mackenzie rivers are all part of this network of major rivers and streams.
What are river systems?
5 natural process that shaped the land of North America.
What are glacier movement, erosion, volcanoes earthquakes, and tectonic plate movement?
This is the reason North America had unique plants and animals and was protected from World Wars.
What is waters isolated the continent?
This region is rich in minerals.
What is the Canadian Shield?
When countries depend upon eachother.
What is interdependence?
Landforms are created by these four actions.
What is wind, water, ice, and moving slabs?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Spain and Portugal influenced this part of the country of North America. While the United States and Canada were influenced by these two European countries.
What is Latin America and the British and French?
These three regions have productive farmland.
What are the Atlantic Coastal Plains, Central Lowlands, and the Great Plains?
Conflict between people's desires and limited resources.