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Vocabulary
Regions
People & the Environment
Natural Resources
Landforms
100
The language, beliefs, customs and tools of a group of people.
What is culture?
100
Where a place is located like the Northeast.
What is a "Location" region
100
Building levees, dams, and irrigation systems.
What is how we shape the environment.
100
There are metals and non-metals in this category.
What is a mineral
100
A low-lying area surrounded by higher land.
What is a basin?
200
Useful things found in nature like trees and water.
What is natural resources
200
the actual geography of the location like the Great Lakes.
What is a "Physical" region.
200
the clothes we wear, games we play, how we get to school, food we eat, and how our homes are built.
What is how the environment effects us.
200
A non-metal mineral at your dinner table
What is salt?
200
an area of high, flat land rising above the nearby land on at least one side.
What is plateau
300
A person who studies the earth and its features.
What is a geographer
300
How the majority of the people in the area make their living, like The Breadbasket.
What is an "Economic" region.
300
Created Lake Mead, largest reservoir in the US, irrigates over a million acres of land in CA, AZ, and Mexico.
What is the Hoover Dam?
300
Whenever you chop one of these down you should replant another one.
What are trees?
300
flat land along the eastern and southern coast of the United States.
What are the Coastal Plains?
400
Coming from many different backgrounds
What is diverse
400
the majority of the people here share the same cultural background, like Little Italy.
What is "Human/Cultural" region.
400
Changed the flow of the Colorado River, making it drier and shallower, and difficult for fish and wildlife to live there.
What are some disadvantages of the Hoover Dam?
400
We transport this natural resource to dry areas for farming.
What is irrigation?
400
These mountains cross the nation from north to south along the East Coast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
a term used to refer to a person's surroundings, including such things as the physical conditions and the climate of a place.
What is environment
500
Living in the Northwest and Silicon Valley.
What is living in more than one region at a time.
500
transportation, inventions, irrigation, air conditioning.
What are reasons for the increase of population over the last 100 years from the East Coast to the West Coast.
500
This is used to create energy sources and medicines.
What is uranium?
500
He created the National Park Service in 1916 to protect the nation's natural treasures.
Who was President Theodore Roosevelt?