Geography & Landforms. UNIT VOCABULARY 1) Grand Canyon10) Chisholm Trail 2) Mojave Desert 3) Great Salt Lake 4) Salton Sea 5) Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

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Geography & Landforms

UNIT VOCABULARY 1) Grand Canyon10) Chisholm Trail 2) Mojave Desert 3) Great Salt Lake 4) Salton Sea 5) Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 6) Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 7) Montgomery, Alabama 8) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 9) Pearly Harbor, Hawaii Statue of Liberty

Grand Canyon 1) Tell about the importance of the Grand Canyon. - Description: created by the Colorado River cutting through layers of rock in Northwest Arizona

Mojave Desert 2) Tell about the importance of the Mojave Desert. - Description: 22,000 miles of desert overlapping California, Utah, Nevada, & Arizona. Mojave Desert Map The “boneyard”

Great Salt Lake 3) Tell about the importance of the Great Salt Lake. - Description: located in Utah, largest lake in the western U.S.A.; so salty that people can float on it

Salton Sea 4) Tell about the importance of the Salton Sea. - Description: is the largest lake in California formed by the flooding of the Colorado River; is very salty.

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 5) Tell about the importance of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. - Description: it is a city that is one the world’s largest steel manufactures; situated on rivers that helped created economy.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 6) Tell about the importance of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. - Description: town where famous Civil War battle was fought; mountains gave good lookout points and protection to the Union troops; turning point of Civil War

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 7) Tell about the importance of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. - Description: place in North Carolina where the Wright Brother made the first airplane flight.

Montgomery, Alabama 8) Tell about the importance of Montgomery, Alabama. - Description: a city in Alabama where Martin Luther King, Jr. led a famous bus boycott.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 9) Tell about the importance of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. - Description: Hawaii naval base attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941 which began World War 2.

The Chisholm Trail 10) Tell about the importance of the Chisholm Trail. - Description: a dirt trail created in the late 1800s helped to move cattle from Texas to Kansas.