Chapter 10 landforms
Chapter 10
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 11
100
rolling plateau region from the Coastal Plain and east and south of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Piedmont?
100
Coastal plain narrowest along this ocean
What is the Atlantic Ocean side?
100
The US population is less than what of the total world population?
What is 5%?
100
US is a world leader in trade, but has had this for the past 20 years.
What is a trade deficit?
100
soft coal
What is bituminous coal?
200
A line along the US Coastal Plain meets the Piedmont - marked by waterfalls and rapids (elevation is changing)
What is the fall-line?
200
People were a major influence in the nation's early history and established 13 colonies
What is the British people?
200
Giant, big city (urban) area that stretches along the U.S. eastern seaboard
What is a megalopolis?
200
Hard coal
What is anthracite?
300
Land area near the ocean
What is the seaboard?
300
Percentage of US population that is European?
What is 75.7 %?
300
Three largest metropolitan areas in the US
What is New York, Denver and Las Vegas?
300
Products made from cloth
What is a textile?
300
area where the glacial deposits made the shore look different
What is southern New England coast?
400
Large farm that concentrates on one major crop, like cotton or coffee
What is a plantation?
400
Religion that predominates the U.S.
What is Christian?
400
Two factors have made the US an industrial giant and world's leading farming nation (agricultural)
What is rich natural resources and a productive population
400
A landform boarded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
400
Number of colleges and universities in New England such as Harvard, Yale and MIT
What is 250?
500
Half of the U.S. that has older landforms than the other half
What is the eastern half of the U.S.?
500
Population rank of the U.S. after China and India
What is 3rd?
500
Encurages innovation, inventions and competition
What is free enterprise?
500
Forest with trees covering an area after the first forest was cut down
What is second-growth forests?
500
Landform regions that cross the Middle Atlantic States
What is Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Appalacian Mountains?
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