Landforms
Natrual Resources
Water Systems
Climates
Climates Continued...
100
Pacific Ranges
What is a collision between tectonic plates that thrust up a series of sharp-peaked mountains?
100
Natrual Resources
What is anything that can be used for humanly purposes & either be renewable or non-renewable?
100
a divide
What is a high point or ridge that determines the direction in which water flows?
100
Hurricanes
What is a ocean storm hundreds of miles widde with winds of 74 mph or more?
100
Blizzards
What do many parts of North America experience these in the winter?
200
Canadian Shield
What is a giant core of rock centered on the Hudson & James Bay?
200
Coal, Petroleum, & Natrual Gas
What is an example of a fossil fuel?
200
Glacial basins
What created the Great Lake in the U.S.?
200
Death Valley
What area has the highest temp. ever recorded in the U.S., 134 degrees?
200
the Great Plains
What area has a humid continental climate with bitter cold winters and hot summers?
300
Dry Basins & plateaus
What fill the area between the Pacific Ranges and Rockies?
300
Mountains, Ocean floors, & Alaska
Where is a place where fossil fuels are found?
300
the fall line
What is a place where the higher land of the Piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain?
300
Prairies
What are areas with natrually treeless axpanses of grasses?
300
a Chapparal
What is an area with Mediterranian scrub vegitation?
400
The Mississippi River
What is the longest river running in the U.S.?
400
a fishery
What is a place for catching fish & other sea animals?
400
tributaries
What are small rivers and streams, connected with one of these two large rivers?
400
supercells
What are violent spring and summer thunderstorms?
400
subtropical, tropical, desert, and Mediterranean
What four climates are found mainly in the Southern U.S.?
500
The Appalachian Mountains
What is the oldest mountain range in the U.S.?
500
Aquaculture
What is fish farming?
500
begins in Minnesota, end in the Gulf of Mexico
Where does the Mississippi River begin and end?
500
timberline
What is the elevation at which trees can no longer grow?
500
tropical, dry, midlatitude, & high latitude
What are the four main primary climates?
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