States and Regions
A ______ is an area in which many features are similar.
What is a region?
These are the three imaginary lines that run around the Earth and help us measure absolute location.
What are the equator, the prime meridian, and the international date line?
The largest lakes in the United States are known as this.
What are the Great Lakes?
The height of land in relation to the sea is called:
What is elevation?
These are items such as the wind, coal, silver, and plants
What are natural resources?
The _________ of a place is where it is compared to other places.
What is the relative location?
We find our exact location using lines of _____ and _______
What are latitude and longitude?
Any area that of water extending into the land from a larger body of water is known as this:
What is an inlet?
Earth is covered with plant life, also known as:
What is natural vegetation?
These are resources that cannot be replaced:
What are non-renewable resources?
The number of people in an area is known as this.
What is the population?
This is the type of weather a place may have over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
Large inlets are known as this.
What are gulfs?
What are March, December, June, and September?
To make a change or edit something is to _____ it.
What is modify?
48 of the states are next to each other, or_______.
What is contiguous?
An area of flat or rolling land is a ________. This is a type of _________.
What are prairie and environment?
A place where the land drops sharply, which causes waterfalls or rapids.
What is a fall line?
A dry climate where only certain plants can grow is _____
What is arid?
When we want products to have a greater ____, we want them to work better without as much of a cost.
What is efficiency?
This region of the United States is known for its agriculture and industry. It is also known as "America's Heartland."
What is the Midwest?
Name one of the mountain ranges we looked at this unit.
What are either the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, etc.
This woman worked to protect the Everglades and lived to be 108.
Who is Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
Wisconsin is in this type of climate which has a hot summer and a cold winter:
What is continental?
The ways we get electricity are through these sources:
What are coal, wind, water, and the sun?