Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Places/ Bodies of Water
Climates/ Vegetation Zones
Natural Resources
100
A stream that flows into larger river
What is a tributary?
100
The largest mountain system in North America
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
The area between the 23 degree N and 23 degree S lines of latitude
What are the tropics?
100
Rich, dark soil
What is alluvial?
200
Routes through which people can travel by foot, rail, vehicle, ship, or airplane
What are transportation corridors?
200
Huge, slow-moving sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
200
The boundary that separates the flow of rivers to the oceans
What is the Continental Divide?
200
Cold, dry region in the far north that is covered with snow for more than half the year
What is tundra?
200
Power generated by moving water
What is hydroelectricity?
300
The second largest mountain system in North America
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
The world's largest group of freshwater lakes
What are the Great Lakes?
300
The hottest place in North America
What is Death Valley?
300
Grasslands; regions of flat or rolling land covered with grasses
What are prairies?
300
Located in the state of Washington, produces more hydroelectricity than any other dam in the United States
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
400
A large, very dry region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras in the United States
What is the Great Basin?
400
An area on the side of a mountain away from the wind that receives little rainfall
What a rain shadow?
400
Called the "Father of Waters"
What is the Mississippi River?
400
Cover nearly one third of the United States and almost one half of Canada
What are forests?
400
Major agricultural region in Canada that produces grains, milk, vegetables, and fruit
What are the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
500
A vital resource for drinking, growing crops, industries, and transportation
What is water?
500
Permanently frozen soil
What is permafrost?
500
Called the "Mother of Canada"
What is the St. Lawrence River?
500
Influences climate
What is latitude?
500
A leading producer of timber products
What is Canada?
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