February 12 Vocabulary quiz

An area of land that has common characteristics such as climate patterns or location.

• settlement patters

• region

• frontier

• compromise

Where most people live and why they live there

• settlement patterns

• region

• migration

• colony

movement of people from one area to another area

• region

• settlement patterns

• migration

• colony

an agreement between opposing parties

• alliance

• negotiation

• pioneers

• compromise

a community ruled by another country, not by its own people

• settlement patterns

• colony

• frontier

• geographic factors

people who are the first to settle in a region

• pioneers

• frontier

• migration

• Manifest Destiny

a region with little population

• frontier

• settlement patterns

• colony

• region

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent

• frontier

• settlement patterns

• region

• Manifest Destiny

how landforms and geography impact an environment

• settlement patterns

• frontier

• geographic factors

• pioneers

a natural physical feature on the earth's surface

• landform

• frontier

• colony

• migration