PAMS Grade 6 Geography - Chapter 6 Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| include mountain ranges and river valleys from Maine to Alabama | Appalachians
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| divides North America's rivers into East and West flowing | Continental Divide
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| highest mountain in North America | Mount McKinley
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| warm all year | Tropical savanna
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| hot summers, drought, blizzards, violent weather | Steppe
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| very cold, most of Alaska | Tundra
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| territory controlled by people from a foreign land | Colony
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| basis of the limited democratic government of the United States | Constitution
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| speaking more than one language | bilingual
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| first industrial area of the United States | New England
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| states that border each other | contiguous
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| the American Indian name for Mt. McKinley | Denali
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| an area surrounded by higher ground | basin
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| a series of mountain ranges separated by high plains and valleys | Rocky Mountains
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| islands off the coast of Alaska | Aleutian Islands
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| violent weather, such as hail and tornadoes | Humid Subtropical
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| to add to | Annex
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| tallest trees in the world, in California | Redwood
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| cloth products | textiles
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| snowy winters and warm, humid summers | Humid Continental
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| a large farm that grows mainly one crop to sell | plantation
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| mineral found in the west and the Appalachians | coal
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| farmers produce a variety of crops instead of one main crop | diversify
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| a farming area above the wheat belt | Corn Belt
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| a huge, densely populated urban area | megalopolis
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| a farming area that produces mass ammounts of dairy | Dairy Belt
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| farming region from Texas to Canada | Wheat Belt
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| strip away soil and rock to find coal and other resources | strip mining
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| a smaller river that flows into a larger river | tributary
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| learned system of shared beliefs and behaviors | culture
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| Jewish place of worship | synagogue
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| the value of imports is more than the value of exports | trade deficit
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| the same temperature all year long | tropical
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| Islamic place of worship | mosque
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