A hot and dry area of land with very little rainfall.
What is a desert.
100
A large stream of water that flows through land
What is a river.
100
An example of a gulf: a large body of salt water that extends into a shoreline.
What is the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Persian Gulf.
100
In general, the higher the elevation, the lower the_______________.
What is the population.
100
Mount Everest is a mountain that is located in the _________ mountain range.
What is the himalayas.
200
A broad, flat area of land, often covered with grasses.
What is a plain.
200
Rapids and/or waterfalls along a river.
What is a cataract.
200
An example of a peninsula.
What is Florida.
What is the Italian Peninsula.
200
In general, the drier an area is, the lower the ____________.
What is the population.
200
This mountain range stretches some 3,000 miles from British Columbia and Alberta in Canada through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and down to New Mexico in the U.S
What is the Rocky Mountains.
300
A body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula.
300
A body of salt water with tides, but smaller than an ocean.
What is a sea.
300
An example of an archipelago: a group of islands.
What is Hawaii.
What is Greece.
What is Indonesia.
What is the Philippines.
300
In general ________ people want to live near the coast of the United States.
What is more.
300
This desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California.
What is the Mojave Desert.
400
A broad, flat area of land higher than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau.
400
A small stream or river that flows into a large river or stream.
What is a tributary.
400
An example of a cataract.
What is the Nile Cataracts.
400
In general, more people live on the east coast in the United States, because it is ____________.
What is wetter than the west coast.
400
A valley located near the Catskill Mountains that the 5th grade will be visiting.
What is Frost Valley!
500
A dip in the Earth's surface (sometimes dry and sometimes wet) that is often found between mountains.
What is a basin
500
A narrow strip of water between two coastlines that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait
500
An example of a delta: a triangular area of flat, low land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is the Nile Delta.
What is the Mississippi Delta.
500
In general, __________ people live in the Great Basin area of the United States because it is both desert like and has a high elevation.
What is less.
500
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River, although the Amazon River comes close!