Landforms & Physical Geography
The oldest mountain range in North America.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The river that flows 2,350 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This U.S. region has long, muggy summers and mild winters.
What is the Southeast / humid subtropical?
Who were the first peoples to inhabit North America?
Who are Native Americans?
The removal of whole forests when harvesting timber.
What is clear-cutting?
The highest point in the U.S., located in Alaska.
What is Mount McKinley / Denali?
This line determines whether rivers flow to the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Continental Divide?
Dry air moving down the leeward side of mountains creates this effect.
What is the rain shadow effect?
European country involved in the fur trade in the northeast.
What is France?
Catching more fish than can naturally reproduce.
What is overfishing?
This plateau in the Pacific Northwest was formed by volcanic lava.
What is the Columbia Plateau?
A series of canals and waterways connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway?
Climate found along the Pacific coast from northern California to southern Alaska.
What is marine west coast climate?
The main cash crop of the Southern Colonies during the colonial period.
What is cotton / tobacco?
Precipitation carrying high amounts of acidic materials.
What is acid rain?
These flat-topped formations are found in the Colorado Plateau.
What are mesas?
Rivers that break into rapids at higher land before reaching the Atlantic. Name a city along one.
What is Philadelphia / Baltimore / Washington, D.C.?
Conifers like pine and spruce survive this cold climate in Alaska.
What is subarctic climate?
Why did many factories locate along the fall line?
To use waterfalls for power.
Overgrowth of algae that depletes oxygen in water.
What is eutrophication?
This gorge plunges more than a mile into the Earth.
What is the Grand Canyon?
How were the Great Lakes formed?
Glacial basins filled with water.
Name three animals found in semiarid regions of the U.S.
What are deer, bison, coyotes, or wolves?
How did industrialization change population patterns in the Midwest?
It became a leading center of industry using rivers and Great Lakes for transportation.
U.S. law passed in 1972 to restore and protect water quality.
What is the Clean Water Act?