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Area of extremely fertile land due to it being cut by many rivers and streams. Located near the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Piedmont Plateau?
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Headwaters of the Mississippi River.
What is Lake Bemidji?
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Joint US-Canada project designed to reduce pollution of water and development of water treatment plants.
What is the Clean Water Act?
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Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from pollution sources.
What is smog?
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The #1 NEGATIVE side-effect from economic and human development in the United States.
What is pollution?
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Name the colonies that favored farming due to their mild climate and fertile soil.
What are the Middle and Southern Colonies?
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The Great Lakes
What is Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario?
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Solar, wind, and water energy.
What are renewable resources?
50
A physical feature that determines the direction of river flow.
What is a divide?
50
Largest immigrant group in America today.
What are Latinos?
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Area between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains.
What are the Great Plains?
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Longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
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Two things that helped form most of the land features in the US.
What are tectonic plate movements and glaciers?
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Environmental problems in the United States because it corrodes stone and metal buildings, damages crops and pollutes the soil.
What is acid rain?
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Area where most people of today usually live (location and type).
What are cities near coastal regions?
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A place on the ocean floor through which magma vents to create a underwater volcano that may grow into an island.
What is a hot spot?
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List the 3 major bodies of water that surround the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico?
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Two US states with the largest petroleum reserves.
What is Texas and Alaska?
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A smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
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People that helped build the first continental railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
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The eastern United States boundary where the elevated Piedmont area drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain.
What is the fall line?
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A channel or pipeline for moving large quantities of water.
What is an aqueduct?
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#1 resource in the United States.
What is timber?
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Large population concentration made up of several large and many smaller cities.
What is a megalopolis?
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The amount of water each household in the Unites States uses every day.
What is 400 gallons?