Vocabulary
Where on Earth
The Land
Rivers
Climate
100
drought
What is a time of little or no rain?
100
hemisphere, equator, prime meridian, continents
What are details you can use to describe your global address?
100
Appalachians and Rocky Mountains
What are two of the oldest mountain ranges?
100
the source, the channel, and the mouth
What are the three main parts of a river?
100
the kind of weather a place has over a long time
What is climate?
200
plateau
What is mostly flat land that rises above the surrounding land?
200
Canada and Mexico
What is how to describe the location of North America?
200
mostly flat land covered with grasses
What are the Coastal and Interior Plains?
200
The Ohio River
What is the nation's largest river system?
200
enormous area of land, closer to the equator, higher elevations, landform or large bodies of water
What are the reasons climate varies greatly across the United States?
300
hemisphere
What is half o Earth?
300
isthmus
What is the way people first traveled to North America?
300
desert land marked by basins, mountains, valleys, plateaus, and canyons
What is the kind of land found west of the Rocky Mountains?
300
Flowing water erodes the land, moving water and rocks scrape along the bed of the river and its banks
What is how rivers wear down the land?
300
places near the equator have warmer climates than those far away
What is how the distance from the equator affects climate?
400
erosion
What is the wearing away of Earth's surface?
400
compass
What is the tool used for finding directions on Earth?
400
The Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Alaska Range, and the Coast Range
What are the four mountain ranges nearest the Pacific Coast?
400
by depositing sand and soil along flood-plains and by forming deltas and sandbars.
What is how rivers build up the land?
400
terrible damage, strong winds, blizzards
What is how extreme weather affects climate?
500
delta
What is the triangular-shaped land at a river's mouth?
500
Amerigo Vespucci
What is the Italian explorer that America was named after?
500
Death Valley
What is the lowest and driest place in North America?
500
build dams and levees, pile bags of sand
What is what people do to prevent rivers from flooding?
500
The western mountains block moist air from the oceans.
What is why does the Intermountain Region receive less precipitation than the Pacific Coast?
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