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Regional Landforms
Weather & Climate
Regional Climates
Regional Resources
Climate, Landforms, and Resources of Florida
100
This region is known for its snow-covered mountains, fertile valleys, and shining lakes.
What is the West region?
100
It is the condition of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
100
The climate within this region varies greatly.
What is the West?
100
We take this type of resource, turn it into raw materials, that people use for products.
What is a natural resource?
100
Because of our warm climate and flat plains, these renewable resources can be found in Florida.
What are sugar cane, citrus fruits, and cattle? (Answers may vary)
200
In this region you will find deserts and the largest canyon in the United States.
What is the Southwest region?
200
It is the weather of a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
Home to the world's largest canyon, most of this region experiences a hot, dry climate?
What is the Southwest region?
200
This region is known for its fish and valuable coal.
What is the Northeast region?
300
In this region you will find plains and the Great Lakes.
What is the Midwest?
300
The two major factors of weather and climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
300
This region has mostly very mild, warm winters, hot summers, and frequent rain.
What is the Southeast?
300
This region has the hottest and coldest temperatures and greatest variety of landforms, creating a great variety of natural resources.
What is the West?
300
Since our state is a peninsula, ______ and ________, are the largest landforms that are not actual land.
What is the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
400
These boundaries are not legally exact, sometimes based on landforms, and may vary based on the source.
What are regional boundaries?
400
Climate depends on LOCATION. These three factors affect climate.
What are distance from the equator, closeness to a large body of water, and elevation?
400
In the state of Florida, the climate changes from temperate to _____________ after you are south of Lake Okeechobee.
What is tropical?
400
Agriculture is an important industry in this region where farmers grow cotton, sugar cane and rice.
What is the Southeast region?
400
Since businesses grow and develop to take advantage of climate and local resources, our state has a lot of _______________ because of ________________.
What is tourism because of the beautiful beaches and warm, sunny climate? or... What is agriculture because of the fertile soil and warm climate?
500
These boundaries are established by rule or law and marked with signs.
What are state boundaries?
500
The rays of the sun strike the Earth most directly in this type of climate, so it's very warm all year.
What is tropical?
500
The combination of good soil, warm climate with lots of precipitation makes this region good for farming.
What is the Southeast?
500
You need a lot of capital resources in this region because of all the manufacturing.
What is the Northeast region?