Landforms
Waterways
Natural Resources
Climate
Environment
100
Natural feature on Earth's surface
What is a landform
100
a giant sheet of ice
What is a glacier
100
Something that is found in nature that is useful to humans
What is natural resource
100
long periods without rainfall
What is drought
100
powerful windstorm with a funnel-shaped cloud that moves quickly over land
What is tornado
200
Treeless plain
What is tundra
200
low, wet area such as a swamp or marsh
What is wetland
200
Resources that can be replaced
What is renewable resource
200
large funnel-shaped wind systems. They develop over large bodies of warm water and lose their strength over land
What is hurricane
300
A group of cities that have grown close together and have seemed to form one city
What is a megalopolis
300
What is this process called: a. ship enters b. water is pumped in c. ship rises with water level d. upper gates are opened. e. ship leaves
What is a lock
300
bringing water to dry land through ditches or pipers
What is irrigation
300
a moving stream of water
What is current
300
overall rise in temperature of the Earth's Atmosphere
What is global warming
400
deep valleys with steep sides
What is canyons
400
How many Great Lakes are there?
What is 5
400
happens when there is not enough of a resource to make all the products people want.
What is scarcity
400
a climate with changing seasons that is neither too got nor too cold. BONUS (25 points) Do we live in this type of climate?
What is temperate: No
400
Tornado Alley is in the East, West or middle of the United States
What is the middle
500
Central Lowlands, Great Plains, and Canadian Shield are examples of
What is Interior Lowlands
500
Name two of the Great Lakes
What is Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, or Lake Erie
500
What happens to the price of something when it becomes scarce?
What is rises
500
What makes a region a desert
What is less than ten inches of rainfall per year
500
Theory that Earth is made of moving plates, or huge slabs of rock
What is plate tectonics
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