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Land and Climate
Our Nations Resources
Regions of the U.S.
People and the Land
RaNdOm
100
This is the study of the world and the people and things that live there.
What is Geography?
100
A resource that can be replaced.
What is a renewable resource?
100
An area that has one or more features in common
What is a region?
100
The process by which water and wind wear away the land.
What is Erosion?
100
South, midwest, northeast, west
What are the four regions of America?
200
A landform with a high, steep-sided area rising above the surrounding area.
What is a plateau?
200
When people don't have as much of something as they would like.
What is scarcity?
200
Someone who buys goods and services
What is a consumer?
200
Anything that makes the soil, air, or water dirty and unhealthy.
What is Pollution?
200
Trees, wind, oil, iron, sunlight, and coal
What are renewable and non-renewable sources?
300
This is where the Rocky Mountains are.
What is the mountain range on the west side of the U.S.
300
When we preserve natural resources and use them wisely.
What is conservation?
300
The buying and selling of goods.
What is Trade?
300
The people that make up an area
What is population?
300
A map that shows state borders and each state capital.
What is a political map?
400
By sunlight striking the equator most directly, the places that are on the equator get more direct sunlight, and are warmer than places far away.
What are ways the equator affects the climate somewhere?
400
A person that brings skills and knowledge to a job.
What is a human resource?
400
Parts of the midwest and northeast, this region specializes in milk and cheese.
What is the dairy belt region?
400
The surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live.
What is the environment?
400
Shows the location of physical features, such as landforms, bodies of water, or resources.
What is a physical map?
500
This person asks where a place is, what it's like, and how people and the land affect each other.
Who is a Geographer?
500
Oil is this type of resource.
What is a non-renewable resource?
500
Tropical, wet and dry. The only climate like this in the U.S.
What is South Florida's climate?
500
Building highways, mining, and using chemicals.
What are some human activities that can change the land?
500
Community of plants and animals along with surrounding soil, air, and water.
What is an ecosystem?