Regions of the US
These are the 3 largest countries in North America.
What are Canada, the United States, and Mexico?
This has caused the Appalachian Mountain peaks to wear down over time.
What is erosion?
Name the 5 Great Lakes
Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior
A span of 1000 years
What is a millenium?
These are the two U.S. states that are not contiguous.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
These are the 2 parts of the Interior Plains.
What are the Central Plains and the Great Plains?
This is a region of valleys and hills on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Piedmont?
What bodies of water do people build across to form resevoirs?
rivers and streams
This is why places closer to the equator are often warmer.
The sun shines more directly on Earth at the equator.
This is the kind of weather a place has over a long time.
What is climate?
This is a flat, low land along the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Rivers and streams east of the Continental Divide run to these two places.
What is the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
The intermountain region just west of the Rockies.
What is the Great Basin?
This is a region with cold winters and summers that are wet and hot.
What is the Northesast?
A stream of river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
What are three similarities of states within the same region?
Rivers and streams west of the Continental Divide run to these two places.
What is the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.
These are two reasons people lived near rivers
What is easier travel and transport goods?
These are the 4 main vegetation regions of the US.
What are forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundras?
What is elevation?
These are the 5 geographic regions of the United States.
What are the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the West?
This is how the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast
The Pacific Coast is rocky and has little flat land.
These are the 4 main vegetation regions that cover the United States.
What are forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundras?
These are the three factors that affect a place's climate
What are distance from the equator, distance from oceans/large bodies of water, and the elevation.
something found in nature that people can use
What is a natural resource?