Landforms
Natural Resources and Climate
Vocabulary
Climate
Mixed Bag
100

Landform that is located in the center of the U.S. and Canada that is good for farming.

What is the Great Plains?

100

A resource that provides over 50% of the United States energy; it is nonrenewable.

What is Coal?

100

Joined together inside a common boundary.

What is contiguous?

100

Giant sheets of ice that helped to form the Great Lakes.


What are glacier?

100

The United States and Canada are part of this continent.


What is North America?

200

The oldest mountain chain in the United States and Canada.

What is the Appalachian Mountains?

200

The two areas of the United States where you can find a tropical climate zone.

What are Hawaii and Florida?

200

A deep valley with steep sides.

What is a canyon?

200

Most of Canada is in this climate zone.

What is sub-arctic?

200

The highest point in North America.


What is Mt. McKinley?

300

A large mountain chain located in western United States and Canada.

What is the Rocky Mountains?

300

The area of the United States where you will find a dry (Desert and Steppe) climate zone.

What is the Western United States and Canada?

300

Rolling, inland grasslands are know as this in the US.

What are prairies?

300

Majority of Kansas has this climate.

What is humid continental?

300

This region is an important US economic, cultural and political center.

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What is the Atlantic megalopolis

400

Determines the direction rivers flow in the United States and Canada.

What is the continental divide?

400

Area of the United States where you find a Humid Continental climate zone in the North and a Humid Subtropical climate zone in the South.

What is the Eastern United States?

400

White-out conditions can occur during this.

What is a blizzard?


400

This natural disaster occurs in the central part of the US more than any other place in the world.

What are tornadoes?

400

This landform is found along the Atlantic Ocean in the United States.

What is the Coastal Plain?

500

Landform located around the Great Lakes and is home to many large cities.

What is the Central Lowlands?

500

Area of the United States and Canada where you can find a Mediterranean Climate Zone and a Marine West Coast Climate Zone.

What is the Pacific Coast?

500

When a river is deep and wide enough for a ship to pass it is this.

What is navigable?

500

Much of the southeastern part of the US has this climate.


What is humid subtropical?

500

Home to the United State's largest oil reserves.

What is Texas and Alaska?