| Question |
Answer |
| uses sprinkler systens on rotating wheels |
Center Pivot irrigation |
| area where people of many cultures settled |
multi cultural region |
| urban area along u.s. eastern seaboard |
megalopolis |
| canal for carrying water |
aqueduct |
| political and emotional support for ones region over nation |
regionalism |
| farming on large modern farms |
agribusiness |
| to dig or clean out a river to make it deeper |
dredge |
| crest of rockies divides north america into eastern and western flowing directions |
contentintal divide |
| administrative unit of a city |
borough |
| narrow arm attached to larger region |
panhandle |
| swampy forest area, frozen except in summer |
muskeg |
| deression after major eruption and or collapse of volcanic mountains |
caldera |
| law making body |
parliament |
| trees after originals have been removed |
2nd growth forest |
| soil and rock are striped away to get coal |
strip mining |
| strong dry wind from rockies to the great plains |
chinook |
| prevents erosion after mining |
land reclamation |
| rocks along glacier ice sheets |
moraine |
| soft coal |
bituminous coal |
| north of the corn belt, dairy farming |
dairy belt |
| hard coal |
anthracite coal |
| low land area where boats can be carried |
portage |
| raw material for manufacturing fertilizers |
potash |
| speckled, hard, crystaline rock formed deep in earths crust |
granite |
| midwestern u.s. from ohio to iowa, raising corn |
corn belt |
| great plains, wheat farming is the major economic activity |
wheat belt |
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