Physical Geography
The U.S. is made up of this many states.
What is 50.
These make up the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.
What are the Great Lakes?
The U.S. has many natural ______________.
What are resources?
A territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land.
What is a colony?
This document was made in 1776 because Americans were not happy with British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Which two states do not make up the main part of the country.
What is Alaska and Hawai?
HOMES helps us remember these important bodies of water.
The Great Lakes - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.
The U.S. has a greater variety of this than any other country. Hint: humid, cold, rainy.....
What is climate?
Before Columbus came to America these peole had already developed distinct cultures.
Who are the Native Americans?
The Americans fought the British in this war to try to gain independence.
The Revolutionary War.
The U.S. is the ______ largest country in the world.
What is 3rd?
This is America's largest and most important river.
What is the Mississippi?
Name two crops grown in the U.S.
What is wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, fruits, and vegetables? (Any two)
When the British set up colonies they often set them up on these.
What are plantations?
In the preamble of the Declaration of Independenceit is stated that "all men were created _________ and have the right to ________, liberty and the pursuit of ________________.
What is equal, life and happiness?
This is the main mountain range on the East side of the country.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
A smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
The U.S. is a major producer of _____ but because we use so much of this we have to import more than ___ of what we need.
What is oil and half?
The British forced these people to work on the palntations.
Who were the enslaved Africans?
General George ________________ led the Americans in a defeat aginst the British in the Battle of _______.
What is Washington and Yorktown?
The Rocky mountains are the major mountains on the west side of the country. Within the high peaks of the mountains is an area of high ground that divdes the flow of rivers towards opposite sides of the continent. This area is called the ________ _________.
What is the continental divide?
Rivers east of the continental divide flow into the _______________ River and west they flow into the _______________ Ocean.
What is east of the divide they flow into the Missisippi and west flows into the Pacific Ocean.
The area where the Mississippi meets the Gulf of Mexico is called the ________________
What is the Mississippi delta?
These two cities became major seaports.
What are Boston and New York?
After independence many people moved _______ to find ______ and resources. These early settlers were called _________________.
What is west and pioneers?