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Land and Climate
Our Nation's Resources
Regions of the U.S.
People and the Land
What Resources Are Found in What Region?
100
The study of the world and the people and things that live there.
What is geography?
100
Useful materials used from nature.
What is a natural resource?
100
An area that has one or more features in common
What is a region?
100
The surroundings in which people , plants, and animals live
What is environment?
100
This region has oil and forests as its resources and include the states Nevada, Arizona, and California
What is The West?
200
A feature on the surface of the land
What is landform?
200
Resources that can be renewed or replaced
What is a renewable resource?
200
A system people use to produce goods and services
What is economy?
200
The process by which water and wind wear away the land
What is erosion?
200
This region has water and forests as its resources and includes states like Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York.
What is Northeast?
300
A high steep-sided area rising above the surrounding land.
What is plateau?
300
Resources that cannot be replaced once they are used up.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
300
This happens when people make the goods they are best able to produce with the resources they have.
What is specialization?
300
Anything that makes the soil, air, or water dirty and unhealthy
What is pollution?
300
This region has farmland and coal as its resources and includes the states Missouri, Iowa, and Ohio.
What is Midwest?
400
The type of weather a place has over a long time.
What is climate?
400
A tool or machine people use to produce goods and services.
What is a capital resource?
400
The buying and selling of goods
What is trade?
400
A community of plants and animals along with the surrounding soil, air, and water.
What is an ecosystem?
400
This region has its resources as water and crops with a hot and humid climate including states like Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.
What is South?
500
The imaginary line around the middle of the Earth.
What is equator?
500
The thing you give up when you decide to do or have something else.
What is opportunity cost?
500
Someone who buys goods and services.
What is a consumer?
500
_____________ ________________ can cause big problems in the Great Lakes by clogging pipes and eating fish we depend on.
What are Zebra Mussels?
500
These two regions have water as a main resource due to how close they are to the ocean
What is Northeast and West?