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An area with many similar features
What is a region?
The three largest countries in North America
What are the United States, Canada and Mexico?
The climate here is hot and dry.
What is the Southwest region?
These regions have hot summers and cold winters
What are the Midwest and Northeast regions?
The state located at 35 N and 110W
What is Arizona?
It has worn away the peaks of mountains.
What is erosion?
A region’s climate is one way to describe this.
What is its environment?
A large part of this landform can be found in Nevada.
What is the Great Basin?
Low flat land along the Atlantic coast
What is the Coastal Plain?
The geography and climate of the United States overall
What are a variety of landforms; including mountain ranges, plains, plateaus, hills and a diverse climate?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river
What is a tributary?
The land drained by a river system
What is a drainage basin?
Our largest lakes
What are the Great Lakes?
The largest river system in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
It divides the river systems that flow into rivers going to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean and those that flow to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Continental Divide?
The height of land above sea level
What is elevation?
Distance from the equator, from oceans and large bodies of water, and elevation
What are factors that affect climate of a region?
Dry climate
What is arid?
Plant life that grows naturally in a place
What is natural vegetation?
It causes the seasons
What is the Earth’s revolution (orbit) around the sun?
To change
What is modify?
Moving water to an otherwise dry area
What is irrigation?
Something found in nature that people can use that include soil, plants, water and minerals
What are natural resources?
One hundred years
What is a century?
People built dams across these bodies of water to form reservoirs.
What are rivers?
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The reason the distance of a place from the equator affects its climate
What is the direct sunlight that area receives?