Touring the United States Regions By Trista L. Pollard


Touring the United States Regions



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Touring the United States Regions


1.  

Based on context clues, what does the word fertile mean?









2.  

Michigan and Wisconsin belong to the ______.
  East North Central Region
  Middle Atlantic Region
  Mountain West Region
  West North Central Region




3.  

What are subregions?









4.  

Why do you think the Census Bureau created subregions?









5.  

True/False: States within the Mountain Region have the same type of climate.
  False
  True




6.  

As you move farther west on a United States map, the land size of the states becomes bigger. Why does this happen?











7.  

Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas were part of the ______ in the past.
  Pacific West Region
  South Central Region
  Mountain Region
  Southwest Region




8.  

The first Pilgrim settlers arrived in the _____ during the 1600's.
  East North Central Region
  Middle Atlantic Region
  Pacific Region
  New England Region




 

Touring the United States Regions - Answer Key



1  Possible answer: able to grow crops easily.
2    East North Central Region
3  Subregions are smaller groups of states within larger regions.
4  Possible answer: geographers at the Census Bureau might have created subregions to make studying the region easier. The states within these subregions may have had more features in common than with the other states in the separate subregion.
5    False
6  Possible answer: when the states in the east were formed, their boundaries were made to follow landforms, like rivers. The states in the west were mapped out to follow natural landforms. Their borders were also made to follow lines of latitude and longitude.
7    Southwest Region
8    New England Region

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