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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Regions
Vegetation Zones
Misc
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What is a river system?
A network of waterways and their tributaries
100
What is precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail; water that falls from the sky
100
This region is flat and has rich soil and many farms.
Central Lowlands
100
Which vegetation zone is located in Northern Canada and Alaska with very cold winters?
Tundra
100
True or False: The desert gets more rain than the rainforest.
False!
200
What is an economy?
The way that businesses use resources to provide goods and services
200
This is a thick sheet of ice that slowly moves across the land.
glacier
200
This region includes the highest mountain ranges in North America.
The Rocky Mountain/Coastal Ranges
200
Which vegetation zone has high temperatures and very little precipitation?
desert
200
How have natural processes shaped North America?
Erosion made the grand canyon, glaciers melted and spread and created land, volcanoes and earthquakes
300
This is what the Great Plains became known was because they had a terrible drought.
Dust Bowl
300
What are landforms?
Physical features that make up a place, such as mountains, valleys, and plateaus
300
This region includes 400-million-year-old mountain ranges
Appalachian Mountains
300
Which vegetation zone has the most precipitation?
Rainforest
300
This region covers most of Greenland and has flat plains with hills in lakes and is rich in minerals.
Canadian Shield/Laurentian Plateau
400
The ________________ of a place includes the trees, bushes, and shrubs that grow there.
vegetation
400
This process helped form the Grand Canyon
erosion
400
This region includes grasslands, few trees, and is where ranchers raise cattle
Great Plains
400
Which vegetation zone is located in the center of North America and is where cattle are raised?
Grassland
400
How does our location on Earth and our climate affect our farming? 2 facts
Different regions grow different plants because of the weather, our farming seasons include different plants because some plants need certain weather
500
This person was a Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark.
Sacagawea
500
This erupted in 1980 and destroyed millions of trees
Mount Saint Helens
500
This region includes rich farmland, swamps, and wetlands.
Atlantic Coastal Plains
500
Which vegetation zone is located in Canada, and the northwest, northeast, and Southeast U.S.?
Forest
500
What are some barriers that prevented people from moving to North America?
Water travel was dangerous, they were not used to the plants and animals that were located here and replaced them with their own plants an animals