Bodies of Water
This is a LARGE sound and the best known in the United States.
What is the Puget Sound?
Smooth, flat grasslands.
What are plains?
This distance from a place to sea level.
What is elevation.
Climate in a particular area that is not extreme.
What is temperate?
This climate is hot and humid.
What is tropical?
The Mississippi River empties into this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The largest mountain range in American.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
The study of earth's landscape, people and cultures.
What is geography?
The two states that do not border any other state.
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
In early America, this was the quickest and easiest way to travel.
This river was key to transportation in early American history.
What is the Mississippi river?
This climate is hot and humid with high rainfall.
What is tropical?
The reason mountainous areas are the last place to people settle.
What is because there are harsh climate and rough terrain?
States that border other states.
What are contiguous states?
Katherine LEe Bates wrote this song.
What is America the Beautiful?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario
What are the Great Lakes?
The way American obtained Alaska.
What is the US purchased it from Russia?
N. America, S. America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and Antarctica.
What are the 7 continents?
This word means Snowy Range.
What is Sierra Nevada?
The reason Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful.
What is because she saw the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains?
The area that runs through the Rocky Mountains from which water flows either east or west down to the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Continental Divide?
A large area of high plains between the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada.
What is The Great Basin?
Because rain washes salt from the soil into it and there is no outlet for the water.
Why is the Great Salt Lake salty?
The number of countries in the Americas.
What is 35?
The average weather in a particular area over a long period of time.
What is climate?