Vocabulary
Communities and Maps
Regions
Climates
Landforms and Communities
100

This is a place where people live, work, and play.

What is community?

100

A community were a large amount of people live and buildings are close together.

What is urban?

100

This is the region that the state of Iowa is located in.

What is the midwest?
100

Not many people live in this dry area.

What are deserts?

100

This landform is tall with steep sides and is much bigger than a hill.

What is a mountain?

200

This word means weather condition of a place over a place over a long period of time.

What is climate?

200

This community is located just outside a city.

What is suburban?

200

This is the region that the state of California is located.

What is the west?

200

This type of winter is what we have in Iowa.

What are cold winters?

200

This is the land between hills or mountains.

What are valleys?

300

This is an area of land with certain features that make it different from other areas.

What is a region?

300
This community has lots of land between homes.

What is rural?

300

This is the region that the state of New York is located in.

What is the northeast?

300

This factor can cause heavy rain and snow in the Midwest or Northeast.

What is bodies of water?

300

These reason are why people settle in valleys.

What is flat, fertile land, and were close to water?

400

This is a physical feature of the land.

What is a landform?

400

This imaginary line runs from north to south.

What is latitude?

400

This is the region that the state of Texas is located in.

What is the southwest?

400

These two regions in the United States have colder winters than other regions.

What is the Northeast and Midwest?

400

These jobs are more likely to be found in communities on the coast.

What is fishing and shipping jobs?

500

This word is a measure of how much moisture is in the air.

What is humidity?

500

This imaginary line runs from east to west.

What is longitude?

500

This is the region that the state of Florida is located in.

What is the southeast?

500

In this part of the United States, it is humid which helps with growing things.

What is the South?

500

This mountain range is in the western part of the United States.

What are the Rocky Mountains?