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This is a large area of nearly flat land.
What is a plain
100
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
This describes the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
100
A chain of long, narrow mountains.
What is a ridge?
100
Name two of the major river systems in Pennsylvania.
What are the Ohio, Susquehanna, or Delaware?
200
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
200
The low patches of land between the hills.
What is a valley?
200
To use something over and over again.
What is recycle?
200
The moisture that falls to the ground in the form of rain, snow, sleet, and/or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
Name 3 different kinds of landforms found in our state.
What are hills, mountains, plains, valleys, and plateaus.
300
The measure of how far east or west a place is from the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
300
An imaginary line that divides one place from another.
What is a border?
300
The way a state produces and uses its natural resources, goods, and services.
What is the economy?
300
Something in the environment that people use.
What is a natural resource?
300
What region of the country is Pennsylvania in?
What is the Northeast?
400
The careful use of our natural resources.
What is conservation?
400
Shapes that make up Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
400
The measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
400
Things in nature that are available for a limited time.
What is a non-renewable resource?
400
The region of the country that Illinois is in.
What is the Middle West?
500
These are found in the ground, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
What is fuel?
500
Criss-crossing lines that cover the entire world on a globe.
What is a global grid?
500
This is made up of all the streams and rivers that flow into a larger river.
What is a river system?
500
Careless use of resources.
What is pollution?
500
The region of the country that California is in.
What is the West?
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