Regions

Terms	Definitions
Glaciers	is a huge sheet of ice that slowly moves across the land.
fall line	Imaginary line between the Appalachain Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, where rivers and streams form waterfalls and rapids as they descend from higher elevations to the coastal plain.
Industrial Revolution	Is a sudden, major change. In the Industrial Revolution, new power-driven machines replaced hand tools. As a result, goods could be made faster and in greater numbers.
Appalachian Mountains	These mountains can be found in almost every state of the Northeast.
Appalachian trail	Several smaller groups of mountains make up the Appalachian Mountains. The Green Mountains of Vermont, the Catskill Mountains of New York, and Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains are part of the Appalachians.
Lowell Massachusetts	City in Massachusetts with many textile mills, employed many women for labor, named after Francis Cabot ______
broadleaf	Leaves are wide and flat, changes color in the autumn; examples are hickories, oaks, and maples.
needleleaf	A tree that has long thin like needles and does not change color in autumn
latitude	Distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees.
parallel	Lines of latitude, always remain the same distance apart.
degree	Use to measure the distance on Earth's surface. The symbol o stands for degrees.
longitude	Imaginary lines that run north to south.
prime meridiam	The first line, or starting place, for measuring lines of longitude.
meridian	One of many lines on the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole; used to measure degrees of longitude
global grid	The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on a map.