Chapter 2 Test: The American Land
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- Q1What is a resource?machines that are used in industrya process that takes minerals from the earthsomething used to make people what they needthe protection of animals and plants30s
- Q2An example of a nonrenewable resource ispetroleumwaterwheattress45s
- Q3What is conservation?careful use and protection of resourcesthe use of gold and silver in electrical connectionswhen people waste resourcesthe use of aluminum cans45s
- Q4What does it mean to recycle?to dig up minerals againto find new resourcesto reuse thingsto find resources45s
- Q5The city of Gary, Indiana was created to use which kind of resources to make steel?iron and coalaluminum and bauxitecopper and silvernatural gas and oil45s
- Q6What is weather?a kind of plant that tells what the next day will be likea pattern in the skywhat is outside of your house or schoolthe condition of a layer of air around the earth45s
- Q7What is temperature?water moving from bodies of water to the aira weather forecastera measurement of hotness or coldnesswhen the air gets damp45s
- Q8What is precipitation?sleetall of the abovehailmoisture that falls from clouds45s
- Q9What does NOT affect the climate?latitudeelevationsize of the citydistance from water45s
- Q10Places at latitudes near the equator usually havewindier weatherwarmer climatescolder climateslittle or no rain45s
- Q11What are landforms?features of the earth's surface like mountains and valleysland that has been formed by waterstudies of the earth and its plant and animal lifegifts of land given by the government for specific purpose45s
- Q12What is erosion?wearing away of the earth as a result of moving waterlowest point in a canyon where a river divides the rockssomething found in nature that is used to raise landa deeply cut valley with high steep sides45s
- Q13What is the Continental Divide?a stretch of high land along the Rocky Mountains that separates water that flows east from the water that flows westa place on the Mississippi River that divides the East from the Westa place that marks the halfway point across the United Statesthe border between the United States and Canada45s
- Q14The Coast Ranges, the Cascades, and the Sierra Nevada make up theGreat BasinRocky MountainsGreat PlainsPacific Ranges45s
- Q15Which major landform area is just east of the Rocky Mountains?the Appalachian Mountainsthe Continental Dividethe Coastal PlainsThe Great Plains45s