the position of one place compared to other places
What is relative location?
100
a region that has similar landforms such as plains, mountains, or valleys
What is landform region
100
the land drained by a river system
What is drainage basin
100
They are caused by Earth's Orbit around the sun
What are seasons?
100
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
200
These are the 5 large regions that make up the United States
What are the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West?
200
This is the flat, low land along the Atlantic Ocean that begins along the coast of Massachusetts and streches south to Florida and then extends west into Texas and Mexico.
What are the Coastal Plains?
200
These are known as the Great Lakes.
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario?
200
The four main vegetatin regions of the United States.
What are forest, grassland, desert and tundra?
200
The use of canals, ditches, or pipes to move water to dry areas.
What is irrigation?
300
These are the largest countries in North America
What are the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
300
These teree-covered mountains are the oldest in the United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
This is the largest river system in the United States. It drains most of the land between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
The single most important factor affecting where different kinds of vegetation grow.
What is precipitaiton?
300
About half of the land in the united States is used for this.
What is farmland?
400
the term given to the 48 states that share at least one border with another state
What is contiguous
400
The eastern part of the Interior Plains.
What are the Central Plains?
400
This imaginary line runs north and south and divides the major river systems of North America into those that flow into rivers leasing into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean and those that flow into the Pacific Ocean or Arctic Oceans.
What is the Continental Divide?
400
Factors affecting climate
What are distance from the equator, disance from large bodies of water, and elevation?
400
Most of the land use in cities is for this.
What are housing, transportaion and businesses?
500
This region is often called "America's Heartland"
What is The Midwest?
500
This is the lowest land in North America. It lies at the edge of the Great Basin in the Intermountain Region.
What is Death Valley, California?
500
Where every river begins.
What is a source?
500
Vegetaion found in a tundra.
What are mosses, herns and low shrubs?
500
These are factors that affect patterns of settlement.
What are physical features and transportaion routes?