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Bodies of Water
Landforms
Regions
Climate
Resources
100
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior
What are the names of the 5 Great Lakes?
100
They are the country’s largest and longest mountain range.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
The 48 contiguous states are grouped into 5 of these.
What are regions?
100
Forest, grassland, desert, tundra.
What are the 4 main vegetation regions of the U.S.?
100
These are resources that cannot be made again by people, or resources that would take thousands of years for nature to replace.
What are non-renewable resources?
200
Gulf of Mexico
What is the largest gulf bordering the U.S.?
200
It lies between the Rockies on the east and other mountains farther west and is a large area of mostly dry land.
What is the Intermountain Region?
200
Each region is based on this , or where it is compared to other places in the United States.
What is relative location?
200
Climate, soil, water, and landforms.
What are four physical features that can affect where people settle.
200
This is something found in nature that people can use.
What is natural resources?
300
Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas
What are the 3 main tributaries of the Mississippi River?
300
The land is mostly is flat and rolling with many streams and rivers.
What are the Central Plains?
300
The United States is a nation made of 50 states. Forty-eight of them are this, which means next to each other.
What is contiguous?
300
Elevation and its distance from the equator.
What are the two things the climate of a place depends on?
300
Resources that can be made again by people or nature.
What are renewable resources?
400
a place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids
What is a fall line?
400
On the east coast, this begins up north in Massachusetts as a strip of land 10 miles wide. It gets much wider farther south, near Florida.
What is the Coastal Plain?
400
The state of Missouri is located in this region.
What is the Midwest Region?
400
The height of the land in relation to sea level.
What is elevation?
400
Water, trees, and wind.
What are some renewable resources?
500
an inlet that separates offshore islands from the mainland
What is a sound?
500
This is a mountain range just inside of California.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
500
Florida is located in this region.
What is the Southeast Region?
500
Plant life that grows naturally in a place.
What is natural vegetation?
500
Oil, gas, and coal.
What are some non-renewable resources?