Matching Pairs Our Nation's GeographyOnline version Matching review Chapter 1 by Jeannine Gryn 1 This is the number of people in an area 2 This describes states next to each other 3 The number of contiguous states 4 Earth's seven largest landmasses 5 This is how the climate of the Southwest differs from the climate of the Northeast 6 It is an area in which many features are similar 7 This natural process has worn down the Appalachian Mountains 8 It is where a place is compared to other places 9 This is the relationship between Earth and the sun that causes the seasons 10 An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly by grasses 11 The surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live 12 A region that has similar landform features 13 This is the reason why people modified rivers and streams 14 The kind of weather a place has over a long time 15 This is how people change the land to improve movement of goods and people 16 A group of connected mountains 17 The gradual wearing away of the Earth's surface prairie continents contiguous population climate water was used for drinking and generating electricity by digging channels region relative location forty-eight landform region the change in the Earth's tilt toward the sun It is hotter and drier environment mountain range erosion erosion