States and Regions
The Land
Bodies of Water
Climate and Vegetation
More Vocabulary
100
This is an area in which many features are similar.
What is a region?
100
These are large land masses.
What are continents?
100
This is any area of water extending into the land from a larger body of water?
What is an inlet?
100
This is the height of the land in relation to sea level.
What is elevation?
100
These are resources that can be made again by people or natue.
What are renewable resources?
200
This is where places are compared to other places.
What are relative locations?
200
This is the kind of weather a place has over a long time.
What is climate?
200
These are large inlets.
What are gulfs?
200
This is plant life that grows naturally in a place.
What is natural vegetation?
200
These resources cannot be made again or resources that take thousands of years for nature to replace.
What are nonrenewable resources?
300
This is the number of regions of the United States.
What is five?
300
There are plains, mountains, plateaus, hills, and valleys.
What are landforms?
300
This is a long inlet that separates offshore islands from the mainland.
What is a sound?
300
This is the use of canals, ditches, or pipes to move water.
What is irrigation?
300
This is a period of 100 years.
What is a century?
400
This is the number of contiguous states.
What is 48?
400
This is the gradual wearing away of Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
400
This is a place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids.
What is a fall line?
400
This is the term to describe a dry climate.
What is arid?
400
This is a period of 1,000 years.
What is a millenium?
500
This is the number of people living in an area.
What is the population?
500
This is an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly by grasses.
What is a prairie?
500
This is the land drained by a river system.
What is a drainage basin?
500
This is a cold dry region where trees cannot grow.
What is the tundra?
500
states that share at least one border with another state
What is contiguous?
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