Regions
The United States is divided into how many regions?
What is five?
Water vapor cools and forms drops.
What is condensation?
Is something in the environment that people can use.
What is natural resources?
This is the condition of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
This is a deep, narrow valley with steep, rock sides.
What is a canyon?
Name the five regions.
What are the Northeast, Southwest, Southeast, West, and Midwest?
Rain, snow, hail, and sleet are all examples of what?
What is precipitation?
These are human-made things that we use to grow or make other things.
What are capital resources?
This is the pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The land along many rivers is called this, it is formed after a river has overflowed.
What is a flood plain?
Name the region with the most variety of landforms.
What is the West?
Water changes to water vapor.
These include people and their skills, ideas, and hard work.
What is human resources?
This is the amount of water in the air.
What is humidity?
These are large, flat, raised areas of land.
This is found in the Southwest. It is a dry area that gets little rain.
What is a desert?
Where does the water that creates humidity come from?
What is bodies of water (lakes, rivers, oceans)?
Explain the difference between nonrenewable and renewable resources. Give an example of each.
What is nonrenewable resources cannot be replaced or would take a long time to form again. Renewable resources can be replaced.
What is oil, coal, etc.?
What is tree, water, etc.?
Name a factor that affects the climate of a place.
What is location (near or far from equator), lakes and oceans, elevation, or wind?
How are a mesa and a hill different?
A mesa has a flat top. A hill's top is rounded.
This is a line that divides one area or state from another. Sometimes this is formed by a natural feature.
What is a boundary?
What causes precipitation to fall in different forms (rain, snow)?
Name how people adapt to their environment.
What is dressing appropriately for the weather, building tunnels to walk through in cold places, building houses on stilts, etc.?
This is how high the land is above sea level.
What is elevation?
These are a natural feature of Earth's surface. Give two examples.
What are landforms? Hill, cliff, island, mesa, plateau, mountain, etc.