Lesson 1 vocab
a region of parallel mountain chain
What is Cordillera?
Yellowstone park is considered what kind of park?
What is a National park?
the right to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
a severe drought dried the Southern Plains and crops died. Strong winds carried the soil away, covering other areas with dust.
What is the Dust bowl?
Something that has the capability of becoming real or actual
What is Potential?
Where snow caps off the mountain, the climate is too cold for trees to grow across that line.
What is Timberline?
These people are always on the move
What is the Nomadic people?
to take control over
What is Annex?
the fertile soil that crops depend on to grow
What is Topsoil?
False information
What is Misinformation?
an imaginary line through the Rocky Mountains
What is a Continental Divide?
People of the southwest lived in villages or towns
What is the Pueblo?
disappeared from Earth
What is Extinct?
farms that were being replaced by firms that rely on machines, advanced technology, and mass-production methods to farm large areas
What is Agribusiness?
Introduction of something new, whether new ideas, method or devices.
What is Innovation?
the process by which water is supplied to dry land
What is Irrigation?
Church based communities led by Catholic priests were meant to house native peoples
What are missions?
lands that were set aside for Native Americans
What is Reservations
makes vehicles that travel in the air and in outer space.
the quality of being cleverly incentive and resourceful
What is Ingenuity?
a liquid fuel made from plants
What is Ethanol?
is a region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area.
What is Frontier?
members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
What are Mormons?
basic, fundamental, referring to something in its earliest stages of development
What is Rudimentary?
having different parts or things connected or related to each other
What is Interconnected?