Unit 5: The United States Vocabulary

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

• Mountain range in Central United States; has many glaciers

• Mountain range in the Western United States; newest and tallest with many peaks above 14,000 Feet (Mt. Elbert)

• Mountain range in the Eastern United States; oldest mountain range and is eroding.

• Mountain range in the Southern United States; forms the border with Mexico

What are the Rocky Mountains?

• Mountain range in Central United States; has many glaciers

• Mountain range in the Western United States; newest and tallest with many peaks above 14,000 Feet (Mt. Elbert)

• Mountain range in the Eastern United States; oldest mountain range and is eroding.

• Mountain range in the Southern United States; forms the border with Mexico

What are the Great Lakes

• The largest collection of Freshwater lakes in the world

• The largest collection of Saltwater lakes in the world

• A group of lakes that people like

• A collection of frozen lakes that forms the border with Mexico

What is the Mississippi River

• The largest river system in the United States

• A river system that goes through Texas

• A river system that flows East to West

• A river system that flows from Oregon to California

What is a tributary

• The largest river system in the United States

• an area of high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards opposite ends of a contintent

• a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land

• a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river

What is a continental divide

• The largest river system in the United States

• an area of high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards opposite ends of a contintent

• a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land

• a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river

What is a colony

• The largest river system in the United States

• an area of high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards opposite ends of a contintent

• a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land

• a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river

What is a plantation?

• an early settler; people who settled the interior and western areas of the country

• a large farm that grows mainly one crop

• a person that speaks two languages

• a string of large cities that have grown together

What is a pioneer

• an early settler; people who settled the interior and western areas of the country

• a large farm that grows mainly one crop

• a person that speaks two languages

• a string of large cities that have grown together

What is a bilingual

• an early settler; people who settled the interior and western areas of the country

• a large farm that grows mainly one crop

• a person that speaks two languages

• a string of large cities that have grown together