Unit 1 - Chapter 3
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| What is a region? | show 🗑
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| Define "interdependence" | show 🗑
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| Animals in a desert region depending on rivers that flow out of a mountain region is an example of what? | show 🗑
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| People in urban regions depending on farming regions for food is an example of what? | show 🗑
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| Urban, coastal, Spanish-speaking, desert, mining, political, a neighborhood . . . all examples of what? | show 🗑
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| Define a political region . . . | show 🗑
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| Is the United States a political region? | show 🗑
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| What are the benefits of creating a political region? | show 🗑
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| show | Natural features such as landforms, rivers, climates, natural vegetation, or wildlife that live in the area.
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| show | The plant life that grows in an area.
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| show | The way people in an area use resources to meet their needs.
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| List some examples of economic regions . . . | show 🗑
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| show | People sharing certain ways of life.
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| List some ways a cultural region is defined . . . | show 🗑
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| show | A group made up of people from the same country or people with a shared way of life.
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| What are the 4 maid types of regions? | show 🗑
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| Do regions stay the same over time or do they change? | show 🗑
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| Definition of "modify" | show 🗑
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| show | Natural events, people modifying the environment.
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| show | The US originally had 13 states. Now it has 50! People blocked rivers to get more water and power. People cleared trees for farms and towns.
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| show | The way people use knowledge and tools to make or do something.
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| show | The way people send and receive information.
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| show | By building streets, highways, railroads, and airports.
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| What do people use to communicate? | show 🗑
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| How does transportation connect regions? | show 🗑
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| show | The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the West.
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| show | Washington D.C.
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| show | Washington D.C. is a "federal district". It is not part of any state.
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| show | A county is a political region of a state.
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| What names do some states use for a "county"? (not county, but . . . ?) | show 🗑
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| The town or city that is the center of a county's government is called a: | show 🗑
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| True or false: a county government does NOT have its own court or police to enforce their laws. | show 🗑
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| True or false: each city in the United States sets up its own municipal government. | show 🗑
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| show | Municipal is another word for CITY.
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| Name two kinds of political regions within a state: | show 🗑
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| show | Federal, state and local.
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| True or false: Each level of government in the US collects taxes to pay for services it provides. | show 🗑
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| show | False - they do!
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| Definition of a treaty: | show 🗑
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| Examples of treaties: | show 🗑
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| show | State roads, state parks, public schools, state colleges and universities, pay for food/shelter/healthcare for people in their state.
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| Name some examples of services provided by local governments: | show 🗑
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| Dividing counties and cities into smaller regions is called what? | show 🗑
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| Examples of special districts: | show 🗑
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| What is North America's largest political region? | show 🗑
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| show | Provinces and territories.
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| Definition of a province: | show 🗑
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| show | A territory is an area owned and governed by a country.
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| Name some of Canada's geography: | show 🗑
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| Where do most people in Canada live? | show 🗑
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| show | Estados Unidos Mexicano (or the United States of Mexico)
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| show | mountain ranges, Mexican Plateau, farmland, desert, grassy plains, forests.
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| show | manufacturing, farming, ranching, mining, oil production.
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| show | Mexico is made up of states. Mexico also has one federal district that is not part of any state.
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| Is Central America part of North America? | show 🗑
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| Is the Caribbean islands part of North America? | show 🗑
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| How many countries is Central America divided into? | show 🗑
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| What country is Puerto Rico a commonwealth of? | show 🗑
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| show | A territory of a country, but governs itself.
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| show | YES
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| Name the two territories of the United States: | show 🗑
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| show | Tropics are areas around the equator that have warm climate all year.
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| show | Rain forests
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| show | A wet area, usually warm, in which tall trees, vines and other plants grow close together.
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| show | Greenland
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| show | A Tundra
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| Greenland is a territory of what county? | show 🗑
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| show | Inuits.
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| Why does Greenland have such a cold climate? | show 🗑
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| Computers and other kinds of ______ help connect regions. | show 🗑
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| A __________ is an area with at least one feature that sets it apart from another. | show 🗑
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| In many cities, the mayor is the head of the ________ government. | show 🗑
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| Puerto Rico is a ________ of the United States. | show 🗑
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| People in an _______ have the same heritage or have a shared way of life. | show 🗑
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| show | interdependence
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| show | modify
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| show | Political
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| Which kind of government in the United States can make treaties with other countries? County government, municipal government, federal government, or state government? | show 🗑
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| How do Mexicans divide their nation? Into states, into territories, into provinces or into commonwealths? | show 🗑
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| How is Washington D.C. different from other cities in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | To pay for government services.
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| What kind of landform covers most of the MIDDLE of the United States? | show 🗑
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| A manufacturing area is an example of what kind of region? | show 🗑
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| Most people in this region speak German as a second language: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| show | Economic
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| Thick forests cover this region: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| show | Physical
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| This region is in southeastern Missouri: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| Most people in this region are Native Americans: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| show | Economic
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| show | Physical
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| The United States is part of this region: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| Many people in this region celebrate the Chinese New year: cultural region, political region, physical region, economic region. | show 🗑
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| How does a map show different features? | show 🗑
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| Canada is divided into political regions called: | show 🗑
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| show | States
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| show | Spanish
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| show | countries
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| Central America is a narrow strip of land between two _________ | show 🗑
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| The Caribbean Region is made up of hundreds of __________ | show 🗑
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| People ________ regions when they clear land for farming. | show 🗑
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