Chapter summary: The United States

What has Earth's tectonic plate movement caused?

• Meteor impacts, erosion, and climate change.
• Shaping many land forms

• Global warming, erosion, and ocean currents.
• Tsunamis, erosion, and the formation of deserts.

What land forms have been shaped from volcanic eruptions?

• Mountains, canyons, and plateaus
• Oceans, rivers, and lakes
• Mountain Ranges, plateaus, canyons, and basins

• Deserts, forests, and grasslands

________ rivers flow through the United States

• Many

• Few

• 10000000

• 20000000

Where do the water ways flow into the pacific ocean from?

• Lakes
• Rivers
• From the west of the continental divide.

• Mountains

How many great lakes are there?

• 5

• 43

• 3

• 70

What formed the Great Lakes

• Volcanic activity
• Tectonic plates shifting
• Meteor impact
• Glaciers

Climates vary from ______ to ______

• State, State

• Country, Country

• Region, Region

Climates are Cooler in _____ altitudes

• high

• low

• medium

Physical geography influences ________

• population growth

• Settlement

• technological

• cultural diversity

Why do people choose locations to live at?

• To meet needs

• to find love

• Cause they don't like dogs