What is US Geography Vocab?
an area under the control and protection of another country
What is a territory?
Deep valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
an area with rich soil to the east of the appalachian mountains
What is the Piedmont?
The region labeled 1
What is the southeast region?
The midwest regions is ____ of the southeast region.
What is northwest?
explains where a place is by comparing it in relation to another place
What is relative location?
tells the exact position of a place on earth
What is absolute location?
What is Lake Superior?
The region labeled 2
What is the west region?
The northeast region is ______ of the west region.
connected by shared borders
What is contiguous?
lines on a map that measure degrees east and west
What is longitude?
number of great lakes
What is 5 great lakes?
The region labeled 3
What is the northeast region?
area located east of the atlantic coastal plain, has rich soil
What is the Piedmont?
lines on a map that measure degrees north and south
What is latitude?
wide and deep enough for ships to pass through
navigable
purpose of the st. lawrence seaway
What is permits ocean going ships to travel from the atlantic ocean to the great lakes?
The region labeled 4
What is the midwest region?
Mountain range that runs through the west and southwest region?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
uses data to manage, analyze, and share geographic information
a person who studies geography
What is a geographer?
territories of the United States
What are the Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands?
What region is labeled 5
What is the southwest region?
Alaska and Hawaii are different from the other 48 states because...
What is they are noncontiguous?