Geography Chapter 5
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- High Level surfaces on the face of the earth
- Plateaus
- North America's oldest mountains
- Appalachian
- Western U.S- natural elevations
- mesas
- Region of low rolling hills and the atlantic coastal plain leads to the atlantic ocean
- Piedmont
- A line that seperated rivers that flow toware opposite ends of a continent
- continental divide
- Water source of a river
- Headwater
- A brooke,. river or stream that feeds into a river
- tributary
- Largest river in the us and canada
- mississippi river
- Two canadian lakes that were formed as a rresult of the ice age
- Great bear lake and Great slave Lake
- Canadas freshwater fishing industry is centered in the area of the
- Great Lakes
- a tropical rainforest climate found 2400 miles away from the us mainland ib on the island of_____
- Hawaii
- The lowest point in the U.S
- Death Valley
- Winds, ocean currents, and mountain on the pacific coast create this
- Marine Cloast Climate
- Higher parts of the rocky mountains and pacific ranges have_______climate
- highland
- Snowstorms with winds 35 mph or higher
- Blizzard
- A tornado with a swirling column of air up to 300 mph
- Tornado
- Warm winds blowing down the slopes of the rockies in winter and early spring
- chinook
- Pacific hurricanes that threaten hawaii every year
- Typhoon
- Elevatio above which trees cannot grow
- timberline
- The great plains of the us used to be a treeless expanse of grasses or
- A Prairie region