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What is the Continental Divide?
Located at the Rocky Mountains. this is an imaginary line which splits the United States' river systems.
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What are the Spanish?
This civilization was the first to settle what is current day western United States
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What is Los Angeles?
This is a major city located on the coast of California
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What is the Pacific Northwest?
This area is home to lots of wooding and forests.
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What is a pueblo?
This is a home built by native Americans in the southwestern USA
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What is the dust bowl?
Caused by removal of roots in the great plains, this disaster was detrimental to the areas inhabitants
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What is the treeline?
This is the area where the elevation becomes to high for trees to grow.
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What is Alaska?
This state was bought by the United States in the late 50's $7,000,000.
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What is water supply
Due to low rainfall this is a huge issue for the United States west of the Mississippi River.
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What are the Great Plains?
This place is where cold air from the Rocky Mountains meets warm air from the Gulf of Mexico causing many tornadoes.
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What is Texas?
This independent country was annexed by the USA in 1845.
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What is aerospace?
This industry is responsible for making vehicles used in outer space.
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What is irrigation
Widely used in the western United States this is the process of bringing in water to dry land.
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What is manifest destiny?
This is the idea that the USA had the right to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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What is NAFTA? (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Spanning from Canada to Mexico, the worlds largest Free-Trade zone was established by this agreement
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