States & Regions
The Land
Bodies of Water
Climate & Vegetation
People & the Environment
100
THESE TWO STATES ARE NOT PART OF THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
100
DESCRIBE THE COASTAL PLAINS
What is they are flat, low land, that gets wider, as you travel south?
100
These are the two largest Gulfs in the United States.
What are the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Alaska?
100
THE THREE FACTORS AFFECTING CLIMATE
What are distance from the equator, distance from oceans and other large bodies of water, and elevation?
100
THESE ARE WAYS THAT PEOPLE USE THE LAND.
What is farming, mining, and cities?
200
NAME ALL 5 REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.
What are the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast?
200
DESCRIBE THE APPALACHIANS
What is have valleys & hills, and they stretch from Southern Canada to Central Alabama?
200
THESE ARE KNOWN AS THE LARGEST LAKES IN THE UNITES STATES.
What are the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)?
200
THIS CAUSES CHANGES IN THE SEASONS.
What is Earth's orbit around the Sun?
200
THE TWO KINDS OF RESOURCES
What renewable and nonrenewable resources?
300
THESE ARE THE WAY THAT STATES IN A REGION ARE SIMILAR.
What are kinds of land, share culture or history, and similar ways to earn a living?
300
DESCRIBE THE INTERIOR PLAINS
What is have tall prairie grass, flat, few rivers, and almost no trees?
300
THE LARGEST RIVER SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
THIS GIVES US DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SUNLIGHT AND HEAT AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE YEAR.
What is the Earth's tilt on its axis?
300
Describe two ways that people modified the environment.
What is cut down trees, dig oil wells, build mines, and plow land?
400
NAME THE SHARED CHARACTERISTICS THAT CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SHARE
What are both were explored by French and British, and both once under British rule?
400
DESCRIBE THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
What is they have sharp, jagged peaks, and part of this land is the Great Basin?
400
Cities in the Eastern part of the United States were often formed here.
What is along rivers that flow into the ocean?
400
NAME THE THREE FACTORS IN NATURAL VEGETATION
What are soil, temperature, and precipitation?
400
THE WAY TO BALANCE THE CHANGES.
What is to use natural resources carefully?
500
NAME THE SHARED CHARACTERISTICS THAT MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES SHARE
What is Spain sent settlers to live in both Mexico and the SW United States?
500
WHAT ARE THE MOUNTAIN RANGES TO THE WEST?
Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, and Coast Ranges
500
RIVERS THAT BEGIN EAST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE REACH HERE...THE RIVERS THAT BEGIN WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE REACH HERE...
What is Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
500
NAME ONE VEGETATION REGION AND ITS TYPE OF VEGETATION.
What are Forest-trees, grassland-grasses, desert-short grasses, low bushes, & cactus, or tundra-mosses, herbs, low shrubs?
500
EFFECTED WHERE PEOPLE SETTLED.
What are the physical features, such as climate, water, and landforms.