Where is the United States?
What are the halves of the Earth called?
Hemispheres
What are features such as mountains, hills, valleys, and plains that make up the Earth's surface?
Landforms
What is how hot or cold something is?
Temperature
What is something found in nature that people can use, such as water, soil, and trees?
Natural Resources
What are resources that cannot be replaced? Once they are all used up, we cannot make any more.
Non-renewable resources
What two hemispheres is the United States in?
Western and Northern Hemispheres
What is land that is at the level with the surface of the ocean?
Sea Level
What is the kind of weather a place has over a long time?
Climate
What is a resource that can be made again by nature of people?
Renewable
What are the surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live?
Environment
The equator
What are the chain of mountains in the Eastern part of the United States?
The Appalachian Mountains
What is one reason why the climates differ?
How far from the Equator? How far from the ocean? What is the elevation? What Landforms are Nearby?
Trees, water and soil are examples of what kind of resources?
Renewable
What is protecting natural resources and using them wisely?
Conservation
What is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Western and the Easter Hemispheres?
The Prime Meridian
What is an area of low, flat land that lies along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean?
The Coastal Plain
What is water that falls to Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
What is all the businesses that make up one kind of product or provide one kind of service?
Industry
What is the place where a river begins?
Source
What is a line that shows the end of a place and the beginning of a new place?
A border
What is an area of high, flat land?
A plateau
What three things make up weather?
Temperature, precipitation, and wind.
What are natural substances found in rocks?
Minerals
What is the place where a river empties into a larger body of water?
The mouth