The Great Plains
The area in South Dakota that is dry and barren is called this.
What is "The Badlands"?
An animal's skin.
What is hide?
The famous geyser that erupts on a regular and predictable basis and in what national park
What is Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park?
The national symbol of the United States is this bird.
What is the Bald Eagle?
The present day state of Oklahoma was where the US pushed the Native Americans (they called them Indians during this time in history) when they drove them off of their land. Because many of the reservations were here, it was known as this.
What is "Indian Territory"?
There are so many tornadoes in the Great Plains that the world knows this region as this.
What is "Tornado Alley"?
The main industries of the Rocky Mountain Region
potato farming, mining (gold and silver), tourism
A large, slow-moving mass of compacted snow or ice.
What is glacier?
These people used the bison for food but also used every part of it for clothing and tools.
Who are the Native Americans (indigenous people)?
So much wheat is grown in the Great Plains that it is called this.
What is "America's Breadbasket"?
Idaho is known for these.
What are potatoes?
Melted rock inside Earth’s crust
What is magma?
Thousands of these animals lived in the Great Plains in the 1800's but were killed to the point of almost becoming extinct.
What are bison?
The carrying away of soil and rock by water, ice, or wind.
What is erosion?
The Capitol of Colorado and the name they call it and why.
What is Denver, Colorado? What is "The Mile-High City" because of how high it is in elevation?
A naturally occurring hot spring in which hot water and steam are released from the ground up into the air in a tall stream.
What is a geyser?
What is the climate like in the Great Plains Region?
What is the region has little water and a harsh climate, with tornadoes in the spring, hot summers and freezing winters?
A storm that occurs when a swirling cloud shaped like a funnel passes over the land. These storms bring destructive winds of more than one hundred miles per hour.
What is a tornado?
This state that has taller and more mountains than any other Rocky Mountain state.
What is Colorado?
To dig into the earth in search of minerals or coal.
What is mine?
The Great Plains is less populated than other regions of the United States, why.
What is that the land is flat with many farms and ranches, very few big cities and in the northern part of the region, the winter weather is especially harsh?
An area of land set aside by the federal government for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
Highest Mountain In Appalachians in feet, Highest mountains in Rockies and feet.
What is Appalachians highest peak is 6,000 feet,
rocky Mountains have several Mtns over 14,000 feet?
The difference between the rocky Mountains in the west and the Appalachian Mountains in the East.
What are the Appalachians have gentle slopes and rounded tops covered with trees. Mountains in the Rockies are more likely to have steep, craggy sides and jagged, rocky tops?
The number of states in the Great Plains region and their names.
What are 5 states? What are Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota
Having little or no vegetation.
What is barren?
The number of states in The Rocky Mountain region and their names.
What are 5 states? What are Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Utah?
A line or group of mountains.
What is mountain range?