Vocab
Rivers
Natural Resources
Vocab 2
Missouri
100

What is a region?

An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.

100

What are Missouri's two major rivers?

Mississippi and Missouri

100

A resource that cannot be replaced

Nonnrenewable

100
Every place has a pattern of weather over many years, this is called a___________.

Climate

100

How many regions are in Missouri?

5

200

In Missouri we have different landforms, hills, valleys, and large areas of nearly flat land called_____. As well as high, flat landforms that rise steeply above the surrounding land. 

Plains

Plateaus

200
Who grew up along the Mississippi in Hannibal?

Mark Twain

200

Missouri leads the country in mining and making what three things?

Lead, fire bricks, zinc

200

A natural resource that are found in the Earth

Minerals

200

What region is Missouri in the United States?

Middle West

300

The river forms the ________ or the beginning of the river.

The place where a river flows into another larger body of water is called the ______

Source

Mouth

300

The Mississippi River is a source of ____________ or electricity produced by water. 

hydroelectric power

300

What are three renewable resources?

Forests, Soil, Water, Wildlife, People

300
What is the height of the land above sea level?

Elevation

300

What is Missouri's highest point?

Taum Sauk Mountain

400

What is a process by which water and wind wear away the top layer of soil?

Erosion

400

What is the Missouri rivers three major uses. 

water, transportation, recreation

400

What are some ways we can help save our planet?? Give an example. 

Recycle- give an example

400

Missouri picks up large amounts of ________ or small particles of soil and sand. 

Silt

400

What force resulted in Northern Missouri being a flat plain??

Glaciers

500

One way to make resources last is to practice?

Conservation

500

place the following terms in the correct order to explain the course of a river.

Source, mouth, tributaries

500

What effects do Missouri's natural resources and climate have on our lives?

Our climate dictates what we can grow and the different resources we can use. 

500

A ___________ is a line that people agree on to separate two places.

Boarder

500

What are the eight states that surround Missouri?

Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa

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