Landforms
areas of flat land or gently rolling hills
What is a plain?
Long-term patterns in temperature, precipitation, and seasons.
What is climate?
A temporary shortage of rainfall.
What is a drought?
4 types of natural vegetation in U.S.
What is desert scrub (arid regions), forest, prairies (in center of US), and tundra found in far northern regions?
Measures distance North or South from the Equator
What is latitude?
These are the oldest mountains in North America and run from southeastern US to Newfoundland Island
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The farther away one is from this point on earth, the colder the climate because the sun's rays shine most directly on Earth's surface here.
What is the equator?
A large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land.
What is a glacier?
5 general physical features that are shared by the US and Canada.
What is plains, forests, mountains, lakes, and rivers?
Measures distance East or West from the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
An area that spreads from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. This area is mostly flat with rolling hills. Most of it used to be covered by mixed coniferous and deciduous forest.
What is Interior Lowlands?
The only place that is part of the U.S., that is located in the low latitudes.
What is Hawaii?
A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.
What is a divide?
Three things that affect climate in a particular region.
What is latitude, mountains, and oceans?
This type of map shows things that governments are concerned with such as state and countries boarders.
What is a political map?
A Flat, low-lying area with very little topsoil, a lot of exposed rock; the soil was scraped away by glaciers moving across the landscape in the last ice age near the Hudson Bay.
What is the Canadian Shield?
Dominant climate type located in the southwestern U.S.
What is desert/arid?
Mountain ranges that run side by side.
What is cordillera?
Name three mineral resources that are found both in the U.S. and Canada.
What is copper, gold, iron ore, lead, silver, zinc, and uranium?
The study of locations of things in the ‘natural’ world, those things not made/built by humans
What is physical geography?
This area is mostly in Nevada and it consists of rocky outcroppings of rock and large depressions.
What is a basin and range?
Most Americans and Canadians live in these climate areas.
What is moderate, middle-latitude climate areas?
Having a common boundary or edge.
What is contiguous?
The Hawaiian and Aleutian Islands are examples of this
What is an archipelago?
Helps you to measure the distance between places on a map.
What is a map scale?