States & Regions
What is the largest state in population?
New York
What mountain range separates the Coastal Plains from the Interior Plains?
Appalachian Mountains
What is the largest group of lakes in the US known as?
The Great Lakes
As elevation rises, the temperature ___.
decreases
What is the largest gulf that borders the US?
Gulf of Mexico
What is the largest state in area?
Alaska
What is the country's longest and largest mountain range?
What is the largest river system in America called? Bonus if you can tell me the 3 biggest tributaries of it.
Mississippi River system
Arkansas River, Ohio River, Missouri River
In the US, about half of the land is used as what?
Farmland
What are 2 examples of natural resources?
North America is made up of what 3 countries?
USA
Mexico
Canada
What are the 3 valleys west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range? Bonus points for the state they are in.
Central Valley (CA)
Puget Sound Lowlands (WA)
Willamette Valley (OR)
The Great Salt Lake
Why can trees not grow in a tundra region?
The soil is frozen year-round, so there is not enough water.
Rivers east of the Continental Divide flow into the _ Ocean. Rivers west of the Divide flow into the _ Ocean.
Atlantic
Pacific
How many of the states in the US are contiguous?
48
What landform did Robert Stevenson see along the Atlantic Ocean when he came into North America?
Coastal Plain
What ocean does the Mississippi River flow into?
Atlantic Ocean
What are the 4 main vegetation regions?
Forest
Grassland
Desert
Tundra
What are 2 examples of renewable resources and 2 examples of nonrenewable resources?
Water, trees, light, wind, soil
Oil, gas, ores
What are the 5 regions in the US?
Northwest
Southwest
Midwest
Northeast
Southeast
What is the lowest land in North America called?
Death Valley, California
The 5 Great Lakes are called:
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
A ___ system allows people to bring water to dry areas.
Irrigation
There is an invisible line down the Rocky Mountains called what?
The Continental Divide