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Vocabulary
The Land
Bodies of Water
Land Use, Settlement, and the Environment
Regions
100
The way most of the land in a place is used.
What is land use?
100
This map shows how high a place is above sea level.
What is an elevation map?
100
This helps people modify the land to make better use of water resources.
What is dam?
100
This resource can be replaced or made again by nature or by people
What is a renewable resource?
100
Lines that run north and south.
What is longitude?
200
Height of the land.
What is elevation?
200
A smaller river that flows into a larger one.
What is a tributary?
200
To change
What is to modify
200
Lines that run east and west.
What is latitude?
300
The countryside (like where we live)
What is a rural area?
300
This landform region of the U.S. stretches inland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
What are the Coastal Plains?
300
Locate on a map the river that boarders the US and Canada.
What is the Saint Lawrence River?
300
To adjust
What is to adapt?
300
A feature that might define a cultural area.
What is religion?
400
A river and its tributaries make up this.
What is a river system?
400
This is the main use of land in the United States.
What is agriculture?
400
Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario
What are the Great Lakes?
400
This is one example of how people have used technology to adapt to their environments.
What is air conditioning?
400
A marker that sits on the line that divided the North from the South during the Civil War.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
500
A region that is based on physical features, such as landforms, vegetation, or climates.
What is a physical region?
500
The Continental Divide runs along this landform.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
500
The Missouri and Ohio Rivers are tributaries and flow into this body of water.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
This natural disaster destroyed San Francisco and enabled Los Angeles to become the largest city in the western U.S.
What is an earthquake
500
The Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and the West.
What are the regions of the US?