Where Am I?
Landform Riddles
Farming, Oil, or Tourism?
ND Nature Facts
Vocabulary
100

I am the flattest region in North Dakota and known for my rich soil.

What is the Red River Valley?

100

I’m shaped by wind and water, and I often create steep slopes in the west.

What is Erosion?

100

This region is best for growing crops.

What is the Red River Valley - Farming

100

This major river flows through the Missouri Plateau.

What is the Missouri River?

100

What do we call a part of the Earth’s surface that has one or more similar features, like landforms or climate?

What is a region?

200

I have rolling hills, many lakes, and I sit between the other two regions.

What is the Drift Prairie?

200

These wide, grassy flatlands are found in the eastern and central regions.

What is prairie?

200
This region has the most oil production.

What is the Missouri Plateau - Oil.

200

This region is home to the most lakes and wetlands.

What is the Drift Prairie?

200

This word means the usual weather in a place over a long time.

What is climate?

300

I'm rugged, elevated, and home to the Badlands.

What is the Missouri Plateau?

300

I’m a high area of land found mostly in western North Dakota.

What is a plateau?

300

This region has both ranching and some crop farming.

What is the Drift Prarie - Farming/Ranching.

300
This region has coal, oil, and natural gas.

Waht is the Missouri Plateau?

300

What do we call the height of the land above sea level?

What is elevation?

400

Farmers like me because I’m flat and great for growing crops like wheat and sugar beets.

What is the Red River Valley?

400

I’m a deep, narrow valley formed by erosion, often found in the Badlands.

What is a canyon?

400

This region is where you'd build a hiking trail in a national park.

What is the Missouri Plateau - Tourism.

400

This resource is used for farming and makes soil productive.

What is water?

400

This term means the wearing away of land by wind or water.

What is erosion?

500

Tourists visit me to hike, see wildlife, and enjoy national parks.

What is the Missouri Plateau?

500

I'm a line of high ground that determines the direction rivers flow across North America.

What is the Continental Divide?

500

This region has a flat land, good drainage, and rich black soil.

What is the Red River Valley - Farming.

500

This natural landform is found mostly in the west and is full of rocky formations.

What is the Badlands?

500

What is the name for materials from nature that people use, like oil, water, or trees?

What are natural resources?