Vocabulary
US Regions
Physical Features of the United States
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Landforms
100
the study of our natural surroundings and how we interact with them.
What is geography?
100
The continent that includes Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico.
What is North America?
100
The ocean that touches the western coast of the U.S.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100

These are the 4 cardinal directions of a compass

What is North, East, South, and West?

100
A landform surrounded on all sides by water.
What is an island?
200

When water turns from a liquid to a gas, what is this called?

What is evaporation

200

What region is Illinois located in?

Midwet

200
The ocean that touches the east coast of the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200

What do you call a resource that you can use over and over again?

A renewable resource

200
A landform that is taller than the land around it which usually comes to a point at the top.
What is a mountain?
300

What do you call the area along a river that floods?

flood plain

300

What region is Montana located in?

the West
300
The name of the largest and longest mountain range in the U.S
What is the Rocky Mountain range?
300

What do you call a resource like oil.  Once its used up, it is gone.

A nonrenewable resource

300

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400

What do you call a deep rocky valley.

A canyon.

400

What region is Oklahoma located in?

The West

400

What is the difference between weather and climate?

Climate is the pattern of weather in a certain place over a period of time.

400

What is the resource needed to make new products?

Human resource

400
A large piece of land extending into a body of water which is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
500

What do you call a hill with a flat top?

A mesa

500

What region is the state of New York located in?

Northeast

500
The flat grassland stretching from the Mississippi River basin to the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Great Plains?
500

What resource is human made things that we use to grow or make other things.

Capital resources

500
Triangular piece of land and water located at the mouth of a river where it meets a large body of water.
What is a delta?
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