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- Chapter 6 Review United States
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- The majority of enslaved Africans worked on __________________________________.
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- Plantations
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- The major physical features in the Eastern United States are ___________________, ____________________________, and _____________________________.
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- Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains
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- Who were the first inhabitants of the Americas? _________________, ________________, and ____________________
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- Inca, Aztec, and Iriquois
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- Farms in the Wheat Belt need to be irrigated because ___________________________.
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- Dry Climate
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- Name 3 major Southern transportation centers. _______________________, ______________________________, and _______________________________.
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- Atlanta Dallas Houston
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- _ _________________________ is the only state inside the tropics.
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- Hawaii
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- The _______________________________ have some of the most fertile and productive farmlands on Earth.
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- Interior Plains
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- The Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and plains are located in the ___________ of the U.S.
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- interior
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- ______________________________ economy is based on fishing, tourism, financial centers, insurance companies and education.
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- New Englands
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- True or False the Rockies, Sierra Nevadas, and Coast Range are located near the Pacific Ocean.
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- false
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- The United States does not contain the climate type ___________________.
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- Arctic
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- The Midwests farm and factory products are sent to market by ___________________.
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- Trucks
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- The climates in the western United States are _________________.
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- dry
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- What are the 5 major regions of the United States? _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ ___________________________
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- Northeast, South, Midwest, Interior west, pacific
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- Alaskas economy is based on _____________, forests, and ________________.
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- Fish oil
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- The Rocky Mountains have _______________ and _______________________ climates.
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- steppe highland
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- The ___________________ are large lakes that were created by shrinking glaciers.
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- Great Lakes
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- Where is most of the U.S. corn grown? ___________________
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- Corn Belt
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- The _____________ Mountains reach up to 14,000 feet high.
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- Rocky Mountains
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- The __________________ River drains the Interior Plains.
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- Mississippi River
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- The Great Basin is surrounded by high _______________________.
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- mountains
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- Plantations are large _____________ that grow mainly one _________________.
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- Farms that grow mainly one crop
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- _____________, or cloth products, that were an important industry in the late 1800s.
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- textile
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- If you can speak two languages you are __________________.
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- BilingualBilingual
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- How many million people in the United States speak Spanish _____________________.
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- 17 million
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- _______________________ forests cover an area after the original forest has been cut down.
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- Second-growth forests
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- The United States has a _______________________ because the value of its exports is lower than its imports.
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- Trade deficitTrade deficit
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- __________________ mining strips away rock and soil with large machines.
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- Strip mining
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- _________________ Georgia has a population of over _____________ million people.
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- Atlanta 3.5 million people
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- The largest city in Washington state is __________________, and it is also the home of a major _______________ company.
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- seattle Software company
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- _______________ is a region surrounded by higher land such as mountains.
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- Basin
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- The _____________________ stretch westward from the Appalachian mountains to the Rockies.
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- Interior plains
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- ___________________ states are states that border each other.
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- contiguous
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- These mountains extend from Maine to Alabama. ___________________
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- Appalachian mountains
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- This runs north to south along the crest of the Rockies___________________________.
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- Continental divide
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- This is a city in the northeastern megalopolis_______________________ _____.
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- BOSTOnBOSTOn
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- If something is ______________ it is formally added or joined to something else.
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- Annexed Some people believe Pluto should be annexed into the solar system
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- A _________________ is a territory that is controlled by people from a foreign land.
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- colony
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- The climate in the southeast United States is ___________________________.
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- Humid subtropical
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- Another word for a blinding snowstorm is a __________________________.
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- bliZzard
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- Name 4 important natural resources AND tell where they are found.
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- Northeast: Forests, coal South: Fertile Soil Midwest: Coal, iron ore Interior West: Coal, oil, gold, silver, copper Pacific States: Forests, fish, oil
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- Name 4 climate types in the United States AND tell where they are found.
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- 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