Land and Regions
Bodies of Water
Climate and Vegetation Regions
Using the Land
Where People Live and Work
100
These are physical features on Earth's surface, such as plains, mountains, and valleys.
What are landforms?
100
True or False: There is an unlimited supply of fresh water?
What is false?
100
This causes the climate to vary more in the western United States.
What is much more mountainous regions than the eastern United States?
100
This is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
What is renewable resources can soon be made again by nature or by people?
100
This is where most large cities in the United States are.
What is near water or on major transportation routes?
200
This region extends across most of the center of the United States?
What is the Interior Plains?
200
This is a pair of terms referring to rivers.
What are tributary and drainage basin?
200
Forest, grassland, desert, and tundra vegetation regions do this.
What is cover most of the United States?
200
These are two factors that influence land use.
What are landforms and climate?
200
This is a large city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area?
300
This is a group of connected mountains.
What is a mountain range?
300
This forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is The Rio Grande?
300
This is plant life that grows naturally in a place.
What is vegetation?
300
This is the use of canals, ditches, or pipes to bring water to dry areas.
What is irrigation?
300
This is a term that means a city region.
What is urban?
400
This is the height about sea level.
What is elevation?
400
This is the regular rise and fall of the ocean and bodies of water connected to it.
What is a tide?
400
This happens when you get closer to the equator.
What is the temperature gets warmer?
400
This is something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
400
This is a term that means a country region.
What is rural?
500
These are two major mountain ranges.
What are the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains?
500
This happens when there are large bodies of water.
What is the land gets warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer?
500
This happens when the elevation goes up.
What is the temperature gets colder?
500
People do this to their environment in order to meet their needs or to do their jobs.
What is modify the land?
500
These are the four regions that people might live and work in.
What are West, Middle West, South, and Northeast?