Northeast
This famous landmark in New York Harbor was a gift from the French and symbolizes freedom and opportunity.
The Statue of Liberty
This state is found just north of Iowa and is known as the "land of 1,000 lakes".
What is Minnesota?
This green, prickly piece of flora is native to the dry landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico and southern Texas.
What is a cactus?
This is the largest state in the US by population and is home to Silicon Valley, which includes companies like Google and Apple.
California
This factor (push or pull) attracts those in search of a new home to move to a certain country.
What is a pull factor?
The typical climate of the Southeast
What is subtropical, or hot, humid, and sunny
The hot summers of the Midwest region often produce this natural disaster, characterized by very fast winds and intense thunderstorms.
What is a Tornado?
This state was briefly its own country after fighting and winning its independence from Mexico.
What is Texas?
This mountain range cuts through Colorado and Wyoming and has the highest peak in the continental United States.
The Rocky Mountain Range
This island state closest to the equator is part of the Western Region
What is Hawaii
One of the two great US mountain ranges, these mountains run through parts of Pennsylvania, New York, and Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains
This state is famous for its music, including blues, jazz, and rock and roll, and is the home of Elvis Presley.
What is Tennessee?
This geographic process explains the way in which the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon over hundreds of thousands of years.
What is erosion?
What ocean borders the West Coast?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
While technically not part of any state, this city is found inside of Maryland and is home to the president and the United States Capitol Building.
What is Washington D.C.?
The largest city in the Northeast Region and the U.S.
What is New York City
An agricultural crop grown in the Southeast
What is Peaches, citrus fruit, rice, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, peanuts
What are lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
This space-bound company is based in Southern Texas from where it launches satellites and tests its rocket boost technology.
What is SpaceX?
This is the name of the saltiest lake in the U.S., found in Utah.
What is the Great Salt Lake
This vocab term refers to a person who moves to a new country because of war, starvation, or danger in their home country.
What is a refugee?
This city in Pennsylvania was the very first capital of the United States and is the place where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence
What is Philadelphia, PA?
This U.S. state is home to the first permanent English settlement, established in Jamestown in 1607.
What is Virginia?
What two rivers run through the Midwest and border the state of Iowa?
The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
Name all four of the states from the Southwest Region
What is Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
This state is the largest producer of pork and pig products in the country, with over 7 pigs for each person living in the state.
What is Iowa?