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Flat, tree-lined, low land along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean

A

Coastal Plain

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Land filled with wide valley and hills along side of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Piedmont

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Piedmont goes from NJ to what other state?

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Alabama

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A group of connected mountains is a____?

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Mountain range

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The Appalachian mountains runs from Southern Canada to _____?

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Central Alabama

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What are the oldest mountain in the US?

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Appalachian Mountains

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The gradual wearing away of the Earth’s surface is called _____.

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erosion

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Name some smaller mountain ranges that run next to each other in the Appalachian mountain range.

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Catskill, Blue Ridge, Great Smoky, White Mountains

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What is the flat land in the center of the country west of the Appalachians called?

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Interior Plains

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In the Central Plains which is a part of the Interior plain there are a lot of flat lands covered by grass. What are these called?

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prairies

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The surroundings of an area that people, plants, and animals live is called the ____?

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environment

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The Interior Plain goes from the _____ to the ______ Mountains in the west.

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Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains

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The Western part of the Interior Plains is called the _____ Plains.

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Great Plains

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The Great Plans stretches from ____ to ___ and includes ____ states.

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Stretches from Southern Texas into Canada and includes 10 states.

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The further west you go on the flat Interior Plain you hit the ____Mountains.

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Rocky

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Name of the largest and longest mountain range in the Us.

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Rockies

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The Rockies stretch from Mexico to ____ and up to ____..

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Mexico to Canada and up to Alaska

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Like the Appalachian Mountain the Rockies are made up of a lot of smaller _______.

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mountain ranges

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What mountain range is younger? Appalachian or Rocky?

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Rockies

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Area of mostly dry land around the Rocky Mountains

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Intermountain Region

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Part of the Intermountain land that is a low, bowl shaped land with higher land around it is called the ____.

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Great Basin

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The lowest land in California is called _____ Valley.

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Death Valley

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Between many of the mountain ranges were fertile ______, thick_____, and rushing ______.

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fertile valley, thick grasses, and rushing streams

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Inside California is the _____ _____ Mountain Range.

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Sierra Nevada

25
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Sierra Nevada in Spanish means______ ______.

A

Snowy Mountains

26
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The _____ Mountain range is north of the Sierra Nevada.

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Cascade Mountain Range

27
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The difference between the central plain and the great plain is that the central plain plain is flat or rolling land with ———and the great plain is mostly flat and ——.

A

Central plain had rivers and streams and the great plain is mostly dry.

28
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The Rocky Mountains are —– and covered in ——. And the inter mountain region is —– and ——–.

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Rockies are night mountains and snow covered.

The inter mountain region are low and dry.

29
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What is the difference between the coastal plain in Massachusetts and Florida?

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The stop of land is smaller in Massachusetts and wider in Florida.

30
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A region that has similar landforms throughout

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landform region

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the kind of weather a place has over a long time

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climate

32
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the gradual wearing away of the earths surface

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erosion

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a group of connected mountains

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mountain range

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an area of water extending into the landform from the body of water

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inlet

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the largest inlets are called _____

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gulf

36
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a long inlet that separate off shore islands from the mainland- boats can sail down these

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sound

37
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largest lakes in the US- HOMES

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Great Lakes

38
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Where is the Great Salt Lake ?

A

Utah

39
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What is HOMES?

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Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

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stream of river that flows into a larger stream of river is a _____

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tributary

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A _____ drains or carries water away from the land around it.

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river system

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The land drained by a river system is a _______

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drainage basin

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a place where the land drop sharply causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids.

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Fall line

44
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the height of land in relation to sea level

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Elevation

45
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plant life that grows naturally in a place

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natural vegetation

46
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a dry climate is an _____ climate; deserts

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arid

47
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cold region that is dry

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tundra

48
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how the land is used

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land use

49
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something sound in nature that people can use

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natural resources

50
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resources that can be made AGAIN by people or nature

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renewable resources

51
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resources that cannot be made again by people or take thousands of years for nature to replace

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nonrenewable resources

52
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change the land

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modify

53
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the use of canals, ditches, or pipes to move water

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irrigation

54
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using less energy to do the same task

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efficiency

55
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10 years

A

decade

56
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100

A

century

57
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1000

A

millennium

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