Chapter 4 Vocabulary Quiz

What is a small river that flows into a larger one called?

• Lock

• Tributary

• Levee

• Fall line

What term describes embankments to control flooding and reduce damage to homes and crops?

• Continental Divide

• Coastal plain

• Levee

• Topsoil

What is an imaginary line through the Rocky Mountains that separates rivers flowing west from those flowing east?

• Fall line

• Continental Divide

• Timberline

• Reservation

What is a flat lowland next to a coast called?

• Coastal plain

• National park

• Topsoil

• Rust Belt

What term describes the elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow?

• Timberline

• Fall line

• Indigenous

• Nomadic

What are large areas of great natural beauty called?

• National park

• Reservation

• Pueblo

• Service industries

Who are the people believed to be the first to settle an area?

• Nomadic

• Indigenous

• Pueblo

• Civil rights

What term describes a way of life in which a person or group moves from place to place?

• Nomadic

• Manifest Destiny

• Service industries

• Topsoil

What is the idea that it was the right of Americans to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean called?

• Civil rights

• Manifest Destiny

• Reservation

• Rust Belt

What is the term for businesses that provide services rather than products?

• Service industries

• National park

• Topsoil

• Pueblo