Vocabulary 1
The different kinds of land, waterways, or physical characteristics in a region.
What are geographical features?
An animal's skin.
What is hide?
Why do many Florida residents speak Spanish?
What is they come from Cuba or many of the other Carribean islands nearby?
The first skyscrapers in America were built in this city in the 1800s.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
The main landform in the Great Plains region.
What are plains?
A piece of land that is protected by the federal government because of its natural beauty or historical importance.
What is a national park?
An area of land set aside by the federal government for Native Americans.
What is reservation?
What is the most important river in the United States (it runs from Canada all the way to the Gulf of Mexico) and why?
What is the Mississippi River? It transports goods.
How much (what percent) of the world's fresh surface water are in the Great Lakes?
What is 20%? OR
What is 21%?
It rains a lot in the Great Plains Region. True or False
What is false?
A piece of land sticking out into a body of water, so that it is almost surrouded by water.
What is peninsula?
Having little or no vegetation.
What is barren?
What is the most important city in the South for business?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
Two crops grown in Iowa and Illinois.
What are soybeans and corn?
What is the name they give to the Great Plains and why?
What is America's Bread Basket? What is because they grow a lot of wheat here.
A warm ocean current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico and travels north along the coast from Florida all the way to Newfoundland in Canada.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The buying and selling of goods and services.
What is commerce?
Which two cities in Tennessee are famous for their music?
What are Memphis and Nashville?
What is the state of Wisconsin known for?
What is Dairy Farming?
What is cheese?
What is America's Dairyland?
Name the Five states of this region.
What are North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma?
The growing of crops and raising of livestock for food and other purposes.
What is agriculture?
The carrying away of soil and rock by water, ice or wind.
What is erosion?
What city in Louisianna is famous for Jazz?
What is New Orleans?
In the midwest there are factories that manufacture these
What are cars?
There is a lot of severe weather in the Great Plains - so severe that they call it by this name?
What is "Tornado Alley?
The lawmaking branch of the American government that is made up of the House of Reprsentatives and the Senate.
What is Congress?
A person from one country who moves to another country to live.
What is immigrant?
The two different names that people in The South call the Appalachian mountains
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
What are the Great Smoky Mountains?
This city is known as "the windy city"
What is Chicago?
What are the three ways people make a living in the Great Plains Region?
What are wheat farming, cattle ranching and oil drilling?