The Impact of Water through US History

Question 1

What are the two major oceans in the US?

Answer 1

The Atlantic & Pacific

Question 2

What is the significance of the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 2

It was a major highway for explorers, early settlers, and later immigrants.

Question 3

Ohio River

Answer 3

Gateway to the west prior to the Louisiana purchase

Question 3

The Mississippi and Missouri River…

Answer 3

Transport farm and industrial products

Question 4

Columbia River

Answer 4

Explored by the Spanish

Question 5

Rio Grande River

Answer 5

Forms part of the border with Mexico

Question 6

Saint Lawrence River

Answer 6

Borders with Canada and connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean

Question 7

What are Mountains?

Answer 7

Natural elevations of the earth’s surface rising to an altitude higher than a hill.

Question 8

What are Rivers?

Answer 8

Natural streams of water, usually of large size and flowing in a definite direction.

Question 9

What are gulfs and bays?

Answer 9

Portions of an ocean that are partly enclosed by land.

Question 10

What are hills?

Answer 10

Natural elevations of land that is smaller than a mountain.

Question 11

What are lakes?

Answer 11

Bodies of water surrounded by land.

Question 12

Extensive level - usually treeless areas of land.

Answer 12

Plains

Question 13

Elevated areas of land with level surfaces

Answer 13

Plateaus

Question 14

Areas of land completely surrounded by water

Answer 14

Islands

Question 15

Areas of land almost completely surrounded almost completely surrounded by water

Answer 15

Peninsulas

Question 16

Streams that flow into larger bodies of water.

Answer 16

Tributaries

Question 17

This plain is along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It has broad lowlands providing many excellent harbors.

Answer 17

Coastal Plain

Question 18

These Mountains are west of the Coastal Plain extending from eastern Canada to Western Alabama including Piedmont. They are old, eroded, mountains and the oldest mountain range in North America.

Answer 18

Appalachian Mountains

Question 19

The __________ is wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape. It includes hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes covered by glaciers.

Answer 19

The Canadian Shield

Question 20

The ___________ are west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains. They are rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys and grassy hills.

Answer 20

Interior Lowlands

Question 21

The ____________ are west of the interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains.

• flat land that gradually increases in elevation westwards.
• contain grasslands.

Answer 21

Great Plains

Question 22

The _______ Mountains are west of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range.

-Rugged mountains stretching from Alaska almost to Mexico with high elevations

-Contain the Contintenial Divide

Answer 22

Rocky Mountains