Flood barriers such as huge walls made out of stone or concrete.
What are levees?
100
People who come to a new place or region.
Who is an Immigrant?
200
Area of high, flat land rising above the nearby land on at least one side.
What are Plateaus?
200
Because the United States are so diverse and we make different amounts of money, we have many of these types of regions.
What are Cultural and Economic Regions?
200
A method used to transport water to land.
What is Irrigation?
200
A man made lake that stores water for our use.
What is a Reservoir?
200
This mountain range is near the Atlantic ocean.
What are the Application mountains?
300
Flat, with low rolling hills is this landform.
What are Interior Plains?
300
People who live in a cultural region share this in common.
What is culture or the same way of life?
300
We build our houses out wood because we have this available resource.
What is Trees or wood?
300
This river was flooding towns and homes until a dam was built in the 1930's.
What is the Colorado River?
300
To make large area of land be easier to understand, geographers do this with the land.
What is divide it into regions?
400
flat, with low rolling hills usually near a coast.
What are Coastal Plains?
400
An area that shares common characteristics.
What is a Region?
400
We wear warm clothes in the winter and cool clothes in the summer because of this.
What is weather or climate?
400
This was the dam that helped prevent a famous river from flooding.
What is the Hoover Dam?
400
We are polluting this substance, which is causing problems in our country.
What is water?
500
Low-lying area surrounded by higher land.
What are Basins?
500
People in the south like to eat fried chicken, talk with an accent and wear shorts almost all year long live in this kind of region. (Hint: it's not the Southern region)
What is Cultural Region?
500
This Mountain range is near the Pacific Ocean.
What are Rocky Mountains?
500
If we would make an animal extinct, we are changing this to our world.
What is changing our enviornment?
500
This thing is found in the earth that people use for energy and manufactoring.