Geographic Regions
True or False: The Basin and Range region is known for farming.
False
BONUS: Name at least one region that is known for farming.
This is the major difference between the kinds of mountains in the Appalachians versus the Rockies.
The Appalachians are older, eroded, and flatter. The Rockies are rugged with high elevations.
This is the region that contains Alaska and Hawaii.
What is the West?
True or false: Michigan is part of the Northeast region.
False. It is part of the Midwest.
These two bodies of water help form the borders of the South region.
This region is characterized by rocky land with thin soil and many lakes describes.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This geographic feature would MOST likely slow travel across North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The Midwest region contains the entire lengths of these two rivers.
What are the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers?
This region contains the fewest states, including Rhode Island and Connecticut.
What is the Northeast?
These bodies of water provided access to the United States for explorers from other parts of the world outside of North America.
The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
These two regions contain the Great Lakes.
What are the Canadian Shield and The Interior Lowlands?
These are grasslands ideal for growing wheat and raising cattle, helping to feed people across the nation.
What are the Great Plains?
These two regions contain portions of the Appalachian Mountains.
What are the Northeast and the South?
Four. BONUS: Name them.
Which geographic feature helped people travel and trade across the middle of North America?
The Mississippi River
Geographers divide North America into regions for this reason.
What is to compare areas with similar physical characteristics?
This river provides water for cities and farms and creates hydroelectric power through dams like the Hoover Dam.
What is the Colorado River?
This is the only region that does not border Canada.
What is the South?
The Mason-Dixon Line divides the Northeast and the South, forming the border of these two states.
What are Maryland and Pennsylvania?
These bodies of water are an important source of fresh water and important for transportation and trade.
The Great Lakes
These are the names of all regions with characterized by mountain ranges.
The Appalachian Mountains, The Rocky Mountains, The Basin and Range, The Coastal Range
Name five ways geography influences people.
What are settlement, transportation, trade, agriculture, and exploration?
This is the definition of a political map.
What is a type of map that represents divisions of territories based on human-created boundaries?
These five states directly border the Gulf of Mexico/America.
Before the Louisiana Purchase, this river was known as a gateway to the West.