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| number of regions in Missouri |
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| Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska |
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| Missouri's highest mountain |
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| a Missouri poet from Kirkwood who is read around the world |
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| a classical music writer whose pieces described American places |
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| a group of people who have ancestors from the same country |
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| a huge, flat boat used for transportation along rivers |
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| a large area of flat or nearly flat land |
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| a line that people agree on to separate two places |
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| a musician who helped create ragtime music |
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| a person who leaves one country to live in another |
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| a poet from Joplin who used African American themes in his works |
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| a resource that can be renewed or replaced |
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| a respected frontierswoman during the late 1800s |
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| a river that flows into another larger river |
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| a thick, moving sheet of ice |
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| an area with common features that set it apart from other areas |
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| an author who wrote the "Little House" books that described life on the prairie |
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| an opening in the Earth's surface where hot gases and liquid rock burst forth |
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| anything that makes our soil, air, or water dirty |
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| art made by ordinary people |
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| describes the air at a certain time and place |
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| different shapes that make up the surface of the earth |
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| 3 things Missouri rivers provide |
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drinking
farming
businesses |
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| farms, villages, and land with no people living on it |
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| 4 types of recreation provided by Missouri's rivers |
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fishing
swimming
boating
sailing |
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| flat with few rolling hills |
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| flood plain, very rich soil |
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forms the entire eastern border of Missouri
longest river in the U.S.
nickname: "The Father of Waters" |
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forms the northwest border of Missouri
2nd longest river in the U.S.
nickname: "The Big Muddy" |
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| founded by Spanish settlers, which they named after their capital in Spain |
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| founded by the French and the oldest European settlement in Missouri |
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| from Diamond, Missouri, he became one of our country's greatest scientists |
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| from Hannibal, he wrote about life along the Mississippi River |
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| gently rolling plains and flat plains |
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| forces that shaped Missouri's landforms |
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| glaciers, volcanoes, water |
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| high, flat landforms that rise steeply above the surrounding land |
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| examples of non-renewable resources |
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| once snake-filled swamp, now rich black soil |
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| painted life along the Missouri River |
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| painted pictures of farmers and settlers |
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| a way to use our resources wisely |
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| resources that cannot be replaced |
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| small particles of soil and sand |
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| something found in nature that people can use |
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| steep hills and rocky soil |
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| the careful use of our natural resources |
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| the first Africans in Missouri |
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| the pattern of weather over many years |
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| the place where a river begins |
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| the place where a river flows into another larger body of water |
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| the practice of making one person the property of another |
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| the process by which water and wind wear away the top layer of soil |
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| the special way of doing things that people share |
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| the study of the Earth and the things on it |
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| the surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live |
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| the total number of people who live in an area |
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| the way of life of a group of people |
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| towns, cities, and the communities around them |
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| examples of renewable resources |
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| trees, soil, water, wildlife, people |
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| water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
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| what people do in order to relax and enjoy themselves |
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| Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
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| wrote many stories about life along the Mississippi River |
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