Why do you think the Census Bureau created subregions?
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True/False: States within the Mountain Region have the same type of climate. False True
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As you move farther west on a United States map, the land size of the states becomes bigger. Why does this happen?
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Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas were part of the ______ in the past. Pacific West Region South Central Region Mountain Region Southwest Region
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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