Chapter 2 Test cards Hunter

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Coastal Plain

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Piedmont

Question 3

Piedmont goes from NJ to what other state?

Answer 3

Alabama

Question 4

A group of connected mountains is a____?

Answer 4

Mountain range

Question 5

The Appalachian mountains runs from Southern Canada to _____?

Answer 5

Central Alabama

Question 6

What are the oldest mountain in the US?

Answer 6

Appalachian Mountains

Question 7

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

Answer 7

erosion

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Catskill, Blue Ridge, Great Smoky, White Mountains

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Interior Plains

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

prairies

Question 11

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

Answer 11

environment

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Great Plains

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Stretches from Southern Texas into Canada and includes 10 states.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Rocky

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Rockies

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Mexico to Canada and up to Alaska

Question 18

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

Answer 18

mountain ranges

Question 19

What mountain range is younger? Appalachian or Rocky?

Answer 19

Rockies

Question 20

Area of mostly dry land around the Rocky Mountains

Answer 20

Intermountain Region

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Great Basin

Question 22

The lowest land in California is called _____ Valley.

Answer 22

Death Valley

Question 23

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

Answer 23

fertile valley, thick grasses, and rushing streams

Question 24

Inside California is the _____ _____ Mountain Range.

Answer 24

Sierra Nevada

Question 25

Sierra Nevada in Spanish means______ ______.

Answer 25

Snowy Mountains

Question 26

The _____ Mountain range is north of the Sierra Nevada.

Answer 26

Cascade Mountain Range

Question 27

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 ------.

Answer 27

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

Question 28

The Rocky Mountains are ----- and covered in ------. And the inter mountain region is ----- and --------.

Answer 28

Rockies are night mountains and snow covered. | The inter mountain region are low and dry.

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

A region that has similar landforms throughout

Answer 30

landform region

Question 31

the kind of weather a place has over a long time

Answer 31

climate

Question 32

the gradual wearing away of the earths surface

Answer 32

erosion

Question 33

a group of connected mountains

Answer 33

mountain range

Question 34

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

Answer 34

inlet

Question 35

the largest inlets are called _____

Answer 35

gulf

Question 36

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

Answer 36

sound

Question 37

largest lakes in the US- HOMES

Answer 37

Great Lakes

Question 38

Where is the Great Salt Lake ?

Answer 38

Utah

Question 39

What is HOMES?

Answer 39

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

Question 40

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

Answer 40

tributary

Question 41

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

Answer 41

river system

Question 42

The land drained by a river system is a _______

Answer 42

drainage basin

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Fall line

Question 44

the height of land in relation to sea level

Answer 44

Elevation

Question 45

plant life that grows naturally in a place

Answer 45

natural vegetation

Question 46

a dry climate is an _____ climate; deserts

Answer 46

arid

Question 47

cold region that is dry

Answer 47

tundra

Question 48

how the land is used

Answer 48

land use

Question 49

something sound in nature that people can use

Answer 49

natural resources

Question 50

resources that can be made AGAIN by people or nature

Answer 50

renewable resources

Question 51

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

Answer 51

nonrenewable resources

Question 52

change the land

Answer 52

modify

Question 53

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

Answer 53

irrigation

Question 54

using less energy to do the same task

Answer 54

efficiency

Question 55

10 years

Answer 55

decade

Question 56

100

Answer 56

century

Question 57

1000

Answer 57

millennium