Regions of the U.S.
What is a region?
What is an area that shares common characteristics?
What are landforms?
What is physical features of the earth's surface.
What is environment?
What is a person's surroundings?
What are natural resources?
What is useful things found in nature?
What is a landform that we have in Minnesota?
What is hills, plains, prairies, rivers, etc?
Tell what a geographer does.
What is studies the earth and it's features?
Name a landform found on the West Coast.
What is Rocky Mountains, The Great Basin, etc.
What is the main thing in our environment that we CANNOT control?
What is weather/climate?
Most resources are nonrenewable, what does this mean?
What is they are limited in supply or cannot be readily replaced.
What is an immigrant?
What is a person who comes to a new place or country to live?
Give 1 example of a PHYSICAL region.
What is The Great Lakes, Rocky Mountain Region, Appalachian Mountains, The Great Plains, or The Great Basin?
What President started the National Park System?
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
A method used to transport water to land is called what?
What is irrigation?
What is an example of a metal mineral?
What is aluminum, iron, etc.
What fish in the state of Washington was harmed by the damming of the Columbia River?
What is Salmon?
What geographic region is our state in, and what other 11 states are in this region?
What is the Midwest? Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska.
What is a basin and give an example.
What is a low lying area surrounded by higher land. The Great Basin.
What is the name of the dam on the Colorado River?
What is Hoover Dam?
What are minerals and what are two kinds of minerals?
What is substances mined from the earth's surface. Metals and nonmetals.
Damming the Colorado River created what lake?
What is Lake Mead?
American people are so diverse - what does this mean and give an example.
What is to come from many different backgrounds? We celebrate different holidays, different cultures, languages, beliefs, etc.
Name the two mountain ranges in California that have the world's richest farmland between them.
What is the Cascades and Sierra Nevada?
What are two reasons the Hoover Dam was built?
What is to control flooding and provide electric power?
Name two problems with water and explain.
What is water shortage and water pollution?
Why do we have National Parks?
What is to protect our land and natural resources?