Vocabulary
From Sea to Shining Sea
An Economic Leader
The Americans
100
The capital of the U.S.
What is Washington D.C.?
100
Glaciers formed this group of lakes.
What are the Great Lakes?
100
These two cities are famous for making computers and software.
What are San Francisco and Seattle?
100
Three-fourths of the people in America are from these ethnic groups.
Who are European?
200
places set aside by the government to protect landscapes of great scenic beauty.
What are national parks?
200
These animals once roamed the Great Plains by the millions.
What are buffalo?
200
The largest part of the U.S. economy.
What is the service industry?
200
The branch of government that makes decision about laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
The tallest mountain in North America.
what is Mount McKinley?
300
A mountain range that begins in Alaska and runs south to Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
300
Gold and silver make up this kind of resource of the Interior West.
what are mineral resources?
300
These people crossed the land bridge from Asia to settle in present day America.
Who are Native Americans?
400
A broad lowland along the Gulf of Mexico.
what is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
400
A river that forms part of the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
Areas where trash companies dump waste they collect.
what are landfills?"
400
This document is the basis of all American laws and is over 200 years old.
what is the Constitution?
500
The fastest-growing areas in the South and Southwest.
What is the Sunbelt?
500
A mountain range that reaches from Washington State to California.
what are the Cascade Mountains?
500
An area in the Midwest with fertile soil and flat lands.
what is the farm belt?
500
This American Author portrayed the struggle people face in the Great Plains.
Who is Willa Cather?
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