Regions/Landforms
an area in which many features are similar
Flat low land along the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Coastal Plain?
To help crops grow, this is used to bring water to fields.
What is irrigation?
Has worn down the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains over time.
What is erosion?
A resource that can be made again and again by people or nature.
What is a renewable resource?
The 3 largest countries in North America.
What are the US, Canada and Mexico?
The soil, water and minerals that people use in some regions.
What are natural resources?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
Climate is one way to describe a regions what?
What is enviroment?
Climate regions in Alaska.
What are polar and subpolar?
States that are not part of the continental United States.
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
Snowy and cold in the winter and doesn't get really hot in the summer.
Climate in the Northeast. How does this affect life there?
The area, with the Mississippi River, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains.
What is a drainage basin?
The shape of the US coasts are partially defined by these.
What are inlets?
The Mediterranean climate occurs in most parts of this state.
What is California?
Dry and hot climate most of the year.
Life in the Southwest. How does this effect life there?
A place's/region's distance from this can effect is climate because it is closest to the sun most of the year.
What is the equator?
The Great Lakes
What are Lakes Heron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
A region's temperature and vegetation is greatly affected by how high it is from sea level.
What is elevation?
The 5 states that boarder the Gulf of Mexico.
What are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida?
Landforms and regions in the continental United States.
What are mountains, prairies, deserts, swamps, Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast and the West?
The earth is doing this around the sun and also tilting on it's axis at different times throughout the year.
What is orbit?
The Great Lake that is farthest north.
What is Lake Superior?
The country that lies to the North of the United States.
What is Canada?
The smallest state in the Northeast Region.
What is Rhode Island?