RMS 6th Grade - Chapter 4 Vocabulary

having to do with a large city; an area that includes a city and its surrounding suburbs

• The Mid-West

• civil rights

• Gulf of Mexico

• Metropolitan Area

this business provides services to people who are traveling for enjoyment

• civil rights

• industry

• coastal plains

• tourism

provide services rather than products

• service industries

• The Mid-Atlantic (States)

• subtropical

• metropolitan area

living or occurring naturally in a particular place

• the Southeast

• Metropolitan areas

• indigenous

• locks

being alone or separated from others

• isolated

• industry

• levees

• coastal plains

these are people who are sent to live in a new place and claim land for their home country

• service industries

• rust belt

• colonists

• industry

Growing crops and raising livestock to sell

• rust belt

• commercial agriculture

• metropolitan area

• mountain range

making products to sell, is called industry

• mountain range

• industry

• colonists

• Atlantic Ocean

a smaller part of a region

• colonists

• subregions

• coastal plains

• industry

a gated passageway used to raise or lower boats in a waterway

• locks

• isolated

• the Southeast (States)

• coastal plains