| A | B |
|---|
| agribusiness | large modern farms owned by big corporations |
| multicultural region | area in which people of many cultures have settled |
| caldera | large depression formed after a major eruption and collapse of a volcanic mountain |
| hot spot | area where molten material from the earth's interior rises through the crust |
| landform regions of California | Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, and ranges |
| climate regions of California | marine west coast, Meditrranean, desert, and steppe |
| California's major urban areas | Los Angeles Basin, San Francisco Bay, San Diego County |
| ways to conserve water | water-saving devices on faucets, keeping and reusing water |
| ways to conserve energy | carpooling or using mass transportation |
| agriculturally productive areas in Oregon & Washington | Willamette Valley, Pudget Sound Lowland, eastern Washington, Columbia Basin |
| pros of development in northwest | help economy |
| cons of development in northwest | loss of farmland & forest, endanger species, increase erosion, loss of recreation sites |
| resource generating most income for Alaska | oil |
| Alaska's native groups | Fishers & nomadic hunters, Aleuts, Inuit |
| Hawaii's climate and landforms provide this to economy | tropical climate for tourism & volcanic soil |
