Chapter 6 Review United States

The majority of enslaved Africans worked on __________________________________.

Plantations

The major physical features in the Eastern United States are ___________________, ____________________________, and _____________________________.

Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains

Who were the first inhabitants of the Americas? _________________, ________________, and ____________________

Inca, Aztec, and Iriquois

Farms in the Wheat Belt need to be irrigated because ___________________________.

Dry Climate

Name 3 major Southern transportation centers. _______________________, ______________________________, and _______________________________.

Atlanta Dallas Houston

_ _________________________ is the only state inside the tropics.

Hawaii

The _______________________________ have some of the most fertile and productive farmlands on Earth.

Interior Plains

The Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and plains are located in the ___________ of the U.S.

interior

______________________________ economy is based on fishing, tourism, financial centers, insurance companies and education.

New England’s

True or False the Rockies, Sierra Nevadas, and Coast Range are located near the Pacific Ocean.

false

The United States does not contain the climate type ___________________.

Arctic

The Midwest’s farm and factory products are sent to market by ___________________.

Trucks

The climates in the western United States are _________________.

dry

What are the 5 major regions of the United States? _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ ___________________________

Northeast, South, Midwest, Interior west, pacific

Alaska’s economy is based on _____________, forests, and ________________.

Fish oil

The Rocky Mountains have _______________ and _______________________ climates.

steppe highland

The ___________________ are large lakes that were created by shrinking glaciers.

Great Lakes

Where is most of the U.S. corn grown? ___________________

Corn Belt

The _____________ Mountains reach up to 14,000 feet high.

Rocky Mountains

The __________________ River drains the Interior Plains.

Mississippi River

The Great Basin is surrounded by high _______________________.

mountains

Plantations are large _____________ that grow mainly one _________________.

Farms that grow mainly one crop

_____________, or cloth products, that were an important industry in the late 1800’s.

textile

If you can speak two languages you are __________________.

BilingualBilingual

How many million people in the United States speak Spanish _____________________.

17 million

_______________________ forests cover an area after the original forest has been cut down.

Second-growth forests

The United States has a _______________________ because the value of its exports is lower than its imports.

Trade deficitTrade deficit

__________________ mining strips away rock and soil with large machines.

Strip mining

_________________ Georgia has a population of over _____________ million people.

Atlanta 3.5 million people

The largest city in Washington state is __________________, and it is also the home of a major _______________ company.

seattle Software company

_______________ is a region surrounded by higher land such as mountains.

Basin

The _____________________ stretch westward from the Appalachian mountains to the Rockies.

Interior plains

___________________ states are states that border each other.

contiguous

These mountains extend from Maine to Alabama. ___________________

Appalachian mountains

This runs north to south along the crest of the Rockies___________________________.

Continental divide

This is a city in the northeastern megalopolis_______________________ _____.

BOSTOnBOSTOn

If something is ______________ it is formally added or joined to something else.

Annexed Some people believe Pluto should be annexed into the solar system

A _________________ is a territory that is controlled by people from a foreign land.

colony

The climate in the southeast United States is ___________________________.

Humid subtropical

Another word for a blinding snowstorm is a __________________________.

bliZzard

Name 4 important natural resources AND tell where they are found.

Northeast: Forests, coal South: Fertile Soil Midwest: Coal, iron ore Interior West: Coal, oil, gold, silver, copper Pacific States: Forests, fish, oil

Name 4 climate types in the United States AND tell where they are found.

Humid Subtropical: South (Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina Humid Continental: Northeast and Midwest(Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York) Humid Tropical: Hawaii Subarctic: Southern Alaska Tundra: Northern Alaska Highland: Rocky Mountains Mediterranean: Primarily in California Marine West Coast: Along the coast of Washington, Oregon, and into California Steppe: Interior West and at the base of the Rocky Mountains Dessert: Southern part of the Interior West (parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada