Vocabulary
What is a cartographer?
a map maker
Go out west to visit The Grand _______
Canyon
hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes are all ________.
natural events
Pennsylvania
Northeast
Pre-columbian or Native American Peoples
The invisible line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere
The equator
This landform is deep dip below sea-level filled with water and surrounded by land
basin
This natural event could lead to crop failure and lack of clean water
drought
Georgia
Southeast
The southeast was conisidered a melting pot because it is a mix of French, African, and American __________.
culture
When people adapt, they change in order to ______.
survive
The state of Florida is a
pennisula
The southeast experiences many of these natural events with strongs winds and heavy rain.
hurricanes
Colorado
West
Name 3 of the orginal 13 American colonies.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
George Washington, Sam Adams, and Ben Franklin were some of the founding fathers of the United States of America. They felt a strong sense of ________ for their country.
patriotism
This landform is a mountain that is missing its peak
plateau
irreplaceable within your lifetime
non-rewable resource
Illinois
Midwest
A nickname for some of the first Americans that moved out west
pioneer
Travel back in time to find enslaved Africans raising cash crops at this location
plantation
This landform would should all the tributaries near a large body of water.
watershed
wood and oil are both ______
natural resources
Arizona
Southwest
With increased affordabilty of cars, many people did this from the urban city to the suburbs
migrated