Northeast U.S. Video GuideNortheast U.S. Video Guide

1.1. What information can you get from maps?What information can you get from maps?

2.2. What are the four regions that are commonly used to divide the What are the four regions that are commonly used to divide the U.S.? U.S.? 

3.3. What are some northeastern cities that serve as harbors?What are some northeastern cities that serve as harbors?

4.4. What do natural resources provide?What do natural resources provide?

5.5. What is the earth’s most recyclable resource? What is the earth’s most recyclable resource? 

6.6. What are some renewable resources?What are some renewable resources?

Physical features, political boundaries, population, vegetation, weather

Northeast, South, Midwest, and West

NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore

Food and fuel

water

Apples, maple trees, wind, solar

Northeast U.S. Video GuideNortheast U.S. Video Guide7.7. What are some nonrenewable resources?What are some nonrenewable resources?

8.8. What is a city?What is a city?

9.9. What is a bay?What is a bay?

10.10. What makes Philadelphia historically important?What makes Philadelphia historically important?

11.11. What is the largest city in the U.S.? How many boroughs What is the largest city in the U.S.? How many boroughs are there?are there?

Coal, oil, and natural gas

Large areas where people live and work

U.S. Capital, Constitution and Declaration of Independence was signed

Part of the ocean that extends into the land

New York City, 5

South U.S. Video GuideSouth U.S. Video Guide

1.1. What are some physical features of the South Region?What are some physical features of the South Region?

2.2. What makes Washington D.C. different from other cities in What makes Washington D.C. different from other cities in the United States? the United States? 

3.3. Why is the coastal region in the South good for farming?Why is the coastal region in the South good for farming?

4.4. Why has the Mississippi River fascinated so many people?Why has the Mississippi River fascinated so many people?

5.5. What rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi River? What rivers are tributaries of the Mississippi River? 

Sandy beaches, marshes, coastal plains, mountains

Only city not in a state, nation’s capital

Rich soil, warm weather, plenty of rainfall

Longest river, history, folklore, industry, commerce

Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio

South U.S. Video GuideSouth U.S. Video Guide6.6. What is a delta?What is a delta?

7.7. What city can be found at the mouth of the Mississippi What city can be found at the mouth of the Mississippi delta and why is it unique?delta and why is it unique?

8.8. What is hurricane?What is hurricane?

9.9. What makes up a large part of the U.S. South Coast line?What makes up a large part of the U.S. South Coast line?

10.10. What do estuaries provide?What do estuaries provide?

Area formed by soil deposits at the mouth of the river

Food, shelter, nutrients, and variety of animal species

Large powerful wind storms that form over an ocean

New Orleans, much of it lies below sea level

Marshes and swamps

Midwest U.S. Video GuideMidwest U.S. Video Guide

1.1. What is the nickname given to the U.S. Midwest region?What is the nickname given to the U.S. Midwest region?

2.2. What did the cities of the Midwest once serve as? Today?What did the cities of the Midwest once serve as? Today?

3.3. What city is known as the “Windy City”? What city is known as the “Windy City”? 

4.4. How were the Great Lakes formed?How were the Great Lakes formed?

5.5. What river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?What river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?

6.6. Describe what the landscape of the prairies is like?Describe what the landscape of the prairies is like?

America’s Heartland

Farming communities; hub of transportation, industry, arts, trade

2 million years ago formed by glaciers

Flat, rolling hills with tall grasses

St. Lawrence River

Chicago

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7.7. What kind of animals live on the prairies?What kind of animals live on the prairies?

8.8. Why is fire essential to the prairies (grasslands)Why is fire essential to the prairies (grasslands)

9.9. What are the 3 agricultural centers of the Midwest?What are the 3 agricultural centers of the Midwest?

10.10. What kind of products are grown in these areas of the Midwest?What kind of products are grown in these areas of the Midwest?

11.11. What do you think would be difficult about living on a working What do you think would be difficult about living on a working ranch?ranch?

It keeps the grasses from overgrowing

Hard work but also rewarding

Lake States, Plains States, and Corn Belt

Milk and cheese; wheat; corn and soybeans

Buffalo, rattlesnakes, spiders, coyotes, deer

West U.S. Video GuideWest U.S. Video Guide

1.1. Identify some interesting physical features of the West?Identify some interesting physical features of the West?

2.2. What 3 layers is the earth made up of?What 3 layers is the earth made up of?

3.3. What is the Continental Divide? What is the Continental Divide? 

4.4. What is a geyser?What is a geyser?

5.5. Which western state has forests, mountains, deserts, and Which western state has forests, mountains, deserts, and hosts the 2hosts the 2ndnd largest city?  largest city? 

Rocky Mountains, Death Valley, Grand Canyon

An invisible line in a mountainous area where rivers flow in separate directions

Spring that shoots out hot water through the crack of the earth’s crust

California (Los Angeles)

Core, crust, and mantle

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6.6. Identify the 1Identify the 1stst National Park? What states is it located?  National Park? What states is it located? 

7.7. What states make up the four corners?What states make up the four corners?

8.8. What do the layers of color tell about the Grand Canyon?What do the layers of color tell about the Grand Canyon?

9.9. What is a fault? What is the most famous one in California?What is a fault? What is the most famous one in California?

10.10. How do scientists measure an earthquake?How do scientists measure an earthquake?

Age (timeline) of the canyon

A crack in the earth’s crust, San Andreas Fault

Richter Scale

Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico

Yellowstone National Park (Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming)

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1111. What event took place that encouraged people to migrate . What event took place that encouraged people to migrate to California?to California?

1212. What natural resources historically have drawn people to . What natural resources historically have drawn people to Alaska?Alaska?

Gold, oil, timber, and fish

Gold Rush