Chapter One Vocabulary

Taken from: Missouri Adventures in Time and Place. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

region

geography

landform

plain

plateau

glacier

Ice age

volcano

Taum Sauk Mountain

Glaciated Till Plain

Osage Plains

Ozark Highland

Mississippi Lowlands

Alluvial River Plain

border

source

mouth

tributary

silt

hydroelectric power

barge

recreation

dam

Mark Twain

St. Louis

Missouri River

Mississippi River

elevation

environment

natural resource

mineral

nonrenewable

renewable

erosion

pollution

conservation

recycle

weather

climate

temperature

Precipitation

Phillipe Renault

Fredricktown

Ste. Genevieve