States & Regions
North America
Landforms/Water
Vocabulary
Fill In The Blank
100
Which state includes a large part of the Great Basin?
What is Nevada?
100
What are the three largest countries in North America?
What is United States, Canada, Mexico
100
How would you describe the landform known as the Coastal Plain?
What is flat, low land along the Atlantic Coast
100
An area in which many features are similar
What is a region
100
Soil, plants, water, and minerals are some of the __________ that people can use.
What is natural resources?
200
How is the climate of the Northeast different from that of much of the Southwest?
What is colder and wetter?
200
Begins in New Jersey and extends to Alabama.
What is Piedmont?
200
What bodies of water did people build dams across to form reservoirs?
What is rivers and streams?
200
What has worn down the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains over time?
What is erosion?
200
To help grow crops, _________ can be used to bring water to a normally dry place.
What is irrigation?
300
A mountain range just inside the California border that is spanish for "snowy mountain range."
What is Sierra Nevada?
300
Stretches across the middle of the country, from the Appalachians in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.
What is Interior Plains?
300
What is the biggest dam in the United States?
What is the Hoover Dam?
300
What word means to change?
What is modify?
300
A region's climate is one feature used to describe its __________ .
What is environment?
400
The eastern part of the interior plains.
What is Central Plains?
400
The Western part of the Interior Plains.
What is the Great Plains?
400
The largest lakes in North America.
What is the Great Lakes?
400
What is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river?
What is a tributary?
400
Invisible lines that run east and west across the earth that are north or south of the equator are called ________.
What is latitude?
500
The mountain range on the East coast.
What is Appalachian mountains?
500
The Country's largest and longest mountain range.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
500
Name the 5 great lakes.
What is Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario
500
Using less energy to do the same tasks.
What is efficiency?
500
Invisible lines that run north and south and are east and west of the prime meridian is called _________ .
What is longitude?