Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Regions of Missouri
Missouri Rivers
Missouri Climate
100
North America is part of this hemisphere.
What is the North or West hemisphere?
100
Moisture that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
100
This region was carved out year ago by glaciers.
What is the Glaciated Till Plain?
100
This river forms the eastern boundary of Missouri.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
Helping the environment by using things over and over.
What is recycling?
200
Natural resources that cannot be replaced.
What is nonrenewable resources?
200
An extremely cold period in Earth's history.
What is the Ice Age?
200
This region was once covered by prairie and is mostly used for farming and cattle raising.
What is the Osage Plain?
200
This river flows across Missouri and meets another river at St. Louis.
What is the Missouri River?
200
This part of the state gets the most precipitation.
What is the southeastern section (or boot heel or Mississippi Lowland?
300
A natural resource that can be replaced.
What is a renewable resource?
300
One of Earth's seven great bodies of land.
What is a continent?
300
This region includes Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in Missouri.
What is the OzarK Highlands?
300
Name three ways rivers are important to Missouri.
What are making electricity, carrying goods on ships, and vacation spots (boating and or fishing)?
300
Name two of the three things that affect Missouri's weather.
What are distance from the equator, elevation, or time of year?
400
A high flat area of land.
What is a plateau?
400
Things found in the environment that people can use.
What are natural resources?
400
The nickname for the Mississippi Lowland region of Missouri, named for it's shape.
What is "The Boot Heel"?
400
This river system is the longest in the United States.
What is the Mississippi-Missouri river system?
400
The zero degree line of latitude.
What is the equator?
500
Using only the resources you need.
What is conservation?
500
The zero degree longitude line.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Missouri's five regions.
What are Glaciated Till Plain, Alluvial River Plain (or just river), Osage Plain, Ozark Highland, Mississippi Lowlands?
500
This river is nicknamed "The Big Muddy" due to the large amount of silt in it.
What is the Missouri River?
500
Name two sources of renewable energy used in Missouri which cause NO pollution.
What are water, wind, or solar power?
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