Unit 2 NA Vocabualry

Mild, moderate climates

• Contiguous

• Temperate

• Indigenous

• Cenotes

sharing an edge or boundary; touching; all connected in one block.

• Temperate

• Indigenous

• Contiguous

• Indigenous

native to a certain area

• Temperate

• Contiguous

• Cenotes

• Indigenous

spanning or crossing a continent

• Temperate

• Indigenous

• Contiguous

• Transcontinental

A type of farming in which farmers grow only enough food for their families to eat.

• Rain Shadow Effect

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash Crops

• Cordillera

Precipitation falls on the windward side of a mountain range, resulting in lush vegetation & a warm, moist climate on one side, but a desert area on the leeward side.

• Rain Shadow Effect

• Subsistence Farming

• Cordillera

• Cenotes

Mayan for "Sacred Wells"; Underground pools revealed by sinkholes.

• Cordillera

• Cenotes

• Transcontinental

• Contiguous

Largest group of fresh water lakes in the world; Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.

• Great Lakes

• Great Plains

• Cenotes

• Transcontinental

A system of several mountain ranges that run parallel to one another.

• Contiguous

• Temperate

• Great Plains

• Cordillera

A mostly flat vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in western North America.

• Great Lakes

• Transcontinental

• Great Plains

• Cordillera