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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Michigan Regions
Michigan Facts
Michigan Geography
100
A device that is used to raise or lower a boat from one part of a river or canal to another.
What is a lock?
100
A narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
100
This region has more factories.
What is the Lower Peninsula?
100
The city of Detroit is known for its manufacturing of this.
What are automobiles?
100
The geography of the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula affect the size of the population living in each region (answer in terms of towns).
What is the Upper Peninsula is rugged and has fewer towns and cities than the Lower Peninsula?
200
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
200
The making of products with the use of machinery.
What is manufacturing?
200
This region has the Soo Locks.
What is the Upper Peninsula?
200
What the Traverse City area is known as.
What is "The Cherry Capital of the World"?
200
The geography of the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula affect the size of the population living in each region (answer in terms of climate).
What is the climate in the Upper Peninsula is colder and snowier?
300
One of the communities surrounding a city.
What is a suburb?
300
The number of people who live in an area.
What is population?
300
This region has the fruit belt.
What is the Lower Peninsula?
300
This is the largest waterfall in Michigan.
What is the Tahquamenon Falls?
300
The geography of the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula affect the size of the population living in each region (answer in terms of jobs).
What is there are fewer jobs in the Upper Peninsula?
400
Activities that people do to enjoy themselves.
What is recreation?
400
The Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula are connected by this bridge.
What is the Mackinac Bridge?
400
This region has the Porcupine Mountains.
What is the Upper Peninsula?
400
This part of Michigan is often called "copper country".
What is the Keweenau Peninsula?
400
This map shows the height of land above sea level.
What is an elevation map?
500
The business of growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
500
Many of our cities were built along these.
What are rivers?
500
This region has the "Cherry Capital of the World".
What is the Lower Peninsula.
500
The Lower Peninsula produces these types of fossil fuels.
What are oil and natural gas?
500
This map shows how the land changes from one area to another and the colors show where mountains, hills, and plains are.
What is a landform map?