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The East and Central American Landscape
The West American Landscape
Climate
Land and Water Resources
Minerals and Fuels
100
Features such as mountains, hills, valleys and plains that make up the Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
Mountains found in Colorado.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
How hot or cold it is.
What is temperature?
100
Things found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
100
Natural substances found in rocks.
What are minerals?
200
The land that is at the same level as the ocean.
What is sea level?
200
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
200
The water that falls to Earth's surface as rain.
What is precipitation?
200
A resource that can be used again like sunlight and water.
What is a renewable resource?
200
Resources that cannot be replaced.
What is a non renewable resource?
300
Mountains found in the eastern part of the United States; the Coastal Plain.
What are the Appalachain Mountains?
300
The ocean that lies west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
The type of weather a place has over a period of time.
What is climate?
300
The water that sink beneath the Earth's surface and can be found under ground.
What is Groundwater?
300
A natural resource used to make heat or energy. It can also be used for cooking.
What is a fuel?
400
A high, flat area of land.
What is a plateau?
400
The land above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
Moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
400
All the businesses that make one kind of resource or product so we can use it, like farming, producing electricity, or working in a factory.
What is industry?
400
The surroundings in which people live.
What is an environment?
500
The beginning of a river and where it leads into a larger body of water.
What is a source and mouth of a river?
500
Differences in elevation.
What is relief?
500
True or False: The farther away from the equator you are, the colder it gets.
What is False?
500
The most important natural resource.
What is water?
500
This is what we call it when we protect our natural resources.
What is conservation?