Made up of low flat land, this landform region stretches inland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. It is also one of the largest landform regions in the United States.
What are the Coastal Plains?
100
The largest bodies of water on Earth.
What are Oceans?
100
In the united States, people use almost one-half of the land for this?
What is agriculture?
100
The way people use resources to meet their needs.
What is the economy?
100
Regions based on physical features, such as landforms, vegetation, or climate
What are physical regions
200
This Mountain Range covers a large part of the Western United States and covers more than 3000 miles from Mexico through Canada and into Alaska.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
200
These are areas of water that extend into the land from a larger body of water.
What are inlets?
200
Landforms, climate, and natural resources are some of these that affect land use.
What are physical features?
200
To meet their needs or to do their jobs, people often do this to their physical environment.
What is modify?
200
Regions in which people share a government and have the same leaders.
What is a political region?
300
To better understand the land of the United States, geographers often divided it into these, which have similar landforms throughout.
What are landform regions?
300
The 2 largest of these types of inlets border the United States near Mexico and Alaska.
What are gulfs?
300
A place that connects people, goods, and ideas - In the past this was a place where railroads and roads crossed today this could be Destiny USA.
What are crossroads?
300
Resources such as minerals and fuels are examples of these - which cannot be made again by people or nature.
What are nonrenewable resources?
300
In this type of region, people share many common customs or beliefs. These beliefs and customs may be based on the religion that most people follow or on the language that they speak.
What is a cultural region?
400
A low, bowl shaped area of land with higher ground all around it.
What is a basin?
400
Collectively, Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario make up this group of the largest freshwater lakes in the world.
What are the Great Lakes?
400
A large city and its surrounding suburbs make up this. The largest of these in terms of population is New York City.
What are Metropolitan Areas?
400
Renewable resources can become this if they are overused.
What is scarce?
400
People and places depending on one another for resources, products, and services.
What is interdependence?
500
To the west of the Coastal Plains lies this tree covered mountain range which stretches from central Alabama to Southeastern Canada.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
These are smaller rivers that flow into larger ones.
What are tributaries.
500
New ways of farming, improvements in farm machinery, and the growth of manufacturing caused people to move to these areas.
What are cities?
500
Slowing the growth of cities, killing people, and destroying roads and buildings are some of the ways that these have affected human history in the United States.
What are Natural Disasters.
500
The 5 regions of the united States include the Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West, and this region in which we live in.