Landforms and Water
This flat-topped hill has a level surface instead of a rounded top
What is a mesa?
This word means the amount of water in the air
What is humidity?
This U.S. region is completely bordered by Mexico to the south.
What is the Southwest?
Tools, machines, and buildings are examples of this kind of resource.
What are capital resources?
An underground layer of porous rock that holds water is called this
What is an aquifer?
The condition of the air at a certain time and place is called this.
What is weather?
State lines and borders are NOT examples of these kinds of boundaries set by law.
What are regional boundaries?
Cotton and copper, found in the Southwest region, are examples of this type of resource.
What is a natural resource?
The process when water vapor cools and forms small drops that gather to make clouds.
What is condensation?
The pattern of weather in a place over a long time is called this.
What is climate?
Give one example of how the environment affects where people live. (not question form)
Give one way people can conserve nonrenewable resources like coal, oil, and natural gas (not question form)
People can walk or bike instead of driving or lower the heat in their houses
A long, high landform made of many connected mountains found in the Northeast and Southeast regions.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
How does higher elevation usually change the climate? (not question form)
It gets colder at higher elevations.
The Appalachian Mountains are found in these two U.S. regions.
What are the Northeast and the Southeast?
A steel factory would most likely be built in a region with large deposits of this material
What is iron ore?
When water turns into vapor, when vapor forms clouds, and when water falls back to Earth.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
OR
What is the water cycle?
Describe the climate of the Southeast region of the United States. (not question form)
It is humid with mild or warm winters and hot summers.
Explain how regional boundaries are different from city, state, or national borders (not question form)
Regional boundaries are not set by laws and are based on features like land, climate, or culture.
Factories use this to reduce the amount of pollution by using water or chemicals to reduce the amount of harmful particles being released into the air.
What is a scrubber?