Rivers
To use the power of water currents to generate electric power.
What is hydroelectric power?
The longest mountain chain in North America
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What is Lake Superior?
The name of your favorite Social Studies teacher.
What is Mrs. Pardee?
The reason that Native American tribes lived near the rivers.
The mountain range that runs through the eastern United States-- from Alabama all the way up to Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The only one of the Great Lakes that is completely located in the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
To supply water to land or crops by means of pipes, rivers, or sprinklers.
The river that was named the "great river". It flows 2,340 miles through ten states and is one of the busiest water routes in the world.
What is the Mississippi River?
This mountain range is on the western coast of the United States, between California and Nevada.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
Two reasons why people chose to live near the great lakes.
What are jobs and farmland?
A body of water in which fresh water and salt water meet.
What is an estuary?
This river was named after a famous explorer who explored the Northeastern United States and Canada. It flows for 315 miles through the state of New York.
What is the Hudson River?
This mountain chain is in the midwestern United States-- from New Mexico all the way up to Montana.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The location of the Great Lakes
A deep gorge usually with a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
What is the Colorado River?
The reason why the Appalachian mountains are shorter than the Rocky Mountains.
What is erosion? The Appalachian Mountains are much older so erosion has caused them to become shorter over time.
Name all 5 Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river or lake.
What is a tributary?