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| List the New England States |
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| Conneticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont |
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| List the middle atlantic states |
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| Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia |
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| The Northeast's economy consists of |
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| factories - manufactoring, banks, fishing, tourism, coal mining and dairy farming |
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| a string of cities that have grown together, stretches along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Washington DC, there is about 40 million people |
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| is a ridge of rocks, gravel, and sand piled up by the huge ice sheets |
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| What region has respected colleges and universities, such as Harvard |
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| The Northeast's climate is mostly |
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| In the Northeast, trees that cover an area after the original, or old-growth, forest has been cut down is called |
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| Name the 3 landforms that make up the Eastern states |
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| Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Appalachian |
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| a body of water where salty seawater and freshwater mix |
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| What is the largest estuary on the Atlantic Coast |
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| Chesapeake Bay - fed by the Susquehunna River |
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| Name the 12 states of the south |
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| Virginia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas |
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| the long, narrow, sandy islands separated from the mainlands are called |
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| Southland areas that are flooded for at least part of the year |
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| name the 2 largest wetlands |
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| Everglades in Florida and the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia |
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| small bits of mud, sand, or gravel carried by moving water |
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| What region has enormous oil refineries and petrochemical plants along with textile mills, fishing and has a history of agricultural farming |
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| The landform that covers much of the south |
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| The Appalachian mountains are made up of smaller sections of mountians name three |
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| Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains, and Cumberland Plateau |
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| rugged, hilly, ancient landform that lies mainly in Arkasas but extends into Oklahoma and Missouri as well |
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| humid subtropical - about 40 to 60 inchs of rainfall |
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| The fourth largest city in America, situated along the Texas Gulf Coast, oil refineries and shipping are important industries in this city |
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| this region of rolling hills is home to many textile factories |
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| What region has cities with important links to Middle and South America |
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| Name the 8 Midwest states |
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| Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri |
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| All the midwest states have shoreline but two |
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| Midwest states have what kind of climate |
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| Humid continental - four distinct seasons |
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| periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged |
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| The core of the midwest's corn-growing region, stretches from center Ohio to center of Nebraska |
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| Major producers of milk, cheese, and other dairy products,most is pasture, north of corn belt and includes Wisconsin and most of Minnesota and Michigan |
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| a busy transportation center on the Great Lakes, 3rd lartest city in US |
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| Nation's leading automobile producer |
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| Most of the Midwest lies within the |
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North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona |
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| What region has parks like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon to drawing tourists |
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| Name the 3 landforms of the Interior West |
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Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Interiormountains West (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau) |
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| What region depends on farming of wheat and ranching for the economy |
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| What region has a dry climate requiring irrigation of crops |
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| a method of irrigation that uses long sprinkler systems mounted on big wheels, that slowy rotates in a large circle from a center point |
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| a mining techinic that obtains coal with large machines by removing rock and soil |
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| Climates found in the Interior West |
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| desert, highland, steppe, and semiarid grasslands |
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| stretches actoss Montana, Nebrasha, and the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado |
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| producing several crops instead of one |
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| value of a nation's exports are lower than its imports |
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| states that border each other |
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| divides the flow of North American's rivers |
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| another term for cloth products |
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| a large farm that grows mainly one crop |
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| able to speak two languages |
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| Eroded the northern part of the Midwest and created the Great Lakes |
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| The Great Plains were formed over millions of years by |
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| sediment deposits from the mountains |
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| Rugged areas of rock that have been eroded by wind and water into small gullies |
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| Its rivers do not reach the sea, but rather flow into low basins and dry up |
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| Large scenic areas set aside by the US government |
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| Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington |
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| What region is home to a major computer software company (Microsoft) |
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| The Pacific States share a physical environmnt characterized by |
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| mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes |
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| The highest peak in the contiguous states is |
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| The highest peak in the United States is |
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| Earthquakes are common in California due to the |
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| The deepest lake in the US, located in Oregon formed in a caldera is |
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| a large depression formed after a major eruption and collapse of a volcanic mountain |
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| rich farmlands that contain most of the population or each state |
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| name the lowlands of Washington and Oregon |
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| Puget Sound in WA and Willamette Valley in OR |
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| form the scenic Pacific northwest coastline east of mountains |
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| Coast Range, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, and Desert Basins and Ranges |
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| Oregon and Washington's landforms |
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| Coast Ranges, lowlands, cascades, and Columbia Basin |
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| a region of dry basins and mountains, drained by the Columbia River |
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| north coast - marine west coast; southern coast and central-mediterranean |
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| Oregon and Washington's climate is |
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| west-marine west coast; east-desert and steppe |
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| Humid tropical-little daily temp changes |
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| southeast coast-marine west coast; interior-subarctic; and northern-tunda |
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| Hawaii is made up of a chain of |
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| 8 large plus 100 smaller islands, volcanic in origin |
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| The Cascades come between what two distinct climate regions. |
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| west side-west coast climate and east-drier desert and steppe climate |
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| The leading agricultural producer in the United States which grows cotton, nuts, veggies and fruit is |
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