North America Vocabulary

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  1. 5. Mountains A mountain system of eastern North America, stretching from Quebec and Maine in the North to Georgia and Alabama in the South
  2. 9. A vast, generally flat region in the central United States.
  3. 11. Major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
  4. 13. Divide A massive area of high ground in the interior of the continent, from either side of which a continent’s river systems flow in different directions
  5. 14. A vast prairie region extending from Canada south through the west central United states into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
  6. 15. The chief mountain system in North America, extending from central New Mexico to Alaska
  7. 17. Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey
  8. 20. A Large, arid region of the American West, bordered by the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the west.
  9. 22. Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona
  10. 23. a depression in Earth’s surface containing water
  11. 24. A group of five freshwater lakes of central North America between the United States and Canada, including Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
  12. 26. A group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.
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  1. 1. A five-thousand-foot-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona.
  2. 2. The Colorado River flows from Colorado southwest through the Rocky Mountains and into Mexico. The river's most famous landmark is the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
  3. 3. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas,
  4. 4. An arid rainshadow desert and the driest desert in North America. It is located in the southwestern United States
  5. 6. An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska
  6. 7. A major river that flows through Canada and the northwestern United States
  7. 8. A large plateau south and west of the Rocky Mountains; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the Southwestern corner.
  8. 10. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California
  9. 12. volcano A volcano that is formed by a hot plume of molten rock that escapes onto the earth’s surface creating new land sometimes forming islands because of the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates.
  10. 13. A flat low-lying land adjacent (next) to a seacoast
  11. 16. Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Michigan
  12. 18. Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, Nevada, California, Colorado, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii
  13. 19. Lands that share a boundary or touching each other physically
  14. 21. A stream, river or glacier that joins a larger stream, river, glacier or lake
  15. 25. Desert in Eastern California. One of the hottest places in the world and the lowest point in North America