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 |