Vocab
Extends from eastern Canada into northern Alabama
What are the Appalachian Mountains-
Active volcano in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest?
What is Mount St. Helens
This includes the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coastal ranges
What are Pacific Mountain Ranges
What kind of natural disaster happen in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts?
What are hurricanes
The average life expectancy in the United States is approximately how many years?
What is 78 years old
Rolling hills that stretch about a thousand miles across America's heartland
What are the Central plains
Which of the Great Lakes is entirely within the boundaries of the United States?
What is Lake Michigan
An area of many rivers at the eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Piedmont
The study of the characteristics of people in a particular place
What are demographics
Which person broke professional baseball’s color barrier?
Who is Jackie Robinson
Sandy plains that stretch inland from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Shores
What are the Coastal Plains
What river forms a large part of the southern border of the United States?
What is the Rio Grande
Presented the greatest obstacle to westward expansion
What are The Rocky Mountains
The area between the dense population of the city and the sparse population of rural areas is called
What are suburbs
The United States is considered a ____________ __________ because Alaska and Hawaii are separated from the rest of the country by water or another country.
What is a fragmented state
A lowland area that includes many canyons and unusual rock formations in much of Nevada and Utah
What is the Great Basin
Which state is the largest in area among the “lower forty-eight” states?
What is Texas
What does piedmont mean?
What are "foothills"
The southern third of the United States, from the Carolinas to California, is called
What is the sun-belt
Which word best describes both the people and the geography of the United States?
What is diverse
Called the “Great American Desert” by early pioneers
What are the Great Plains
Which state is the headquarters of the U.S. military in the Pacific?
What is Hawaii
Terrible storms that move in from over the North Atlantic
What are nor'easters
The highest point in North America is which mountain?
What is Mount McKinley
About eighty percent of Americans live in
What are urban areas