Mixed Bag
The ranking of Earth in distance from the Sun
What is third (3rd)?
The number of continents and name of 3.
What is 7 and choice of 3: North America, South America, Africa, Australia/Oceania, Antarctica, Europe, Asia
This latitude line separates the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
40°N, 80°W......Also known as the Capitol of Ohio.
What is Columbus?
Name three countries that make up Northern America.
What is the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
The name where the North Pole is located.
What is the Artic Circle
The % of Earth's crust that is oceans and name 4.
What is 70% and choice of 4: Atlantic, Pacific, Artic, Indian, and Southern
This longitude line separates the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
This state is located between 170° and 140°West.
What is Alaska?
Name the Eastern mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains.
This river, located in Africa, is the longest river on Earth.
What is the Nile?
Name how long it takes for the Earth to complete spin or rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Name the 2 other imaginary latitude lines.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
36°N, 118°W.....the recent location of 7.1 and 6.4 magnitude earthquakes. Use atlas page 58.
What is Ridgecrest, California
Name the language families for North America. Use the World thematic maps and graphs from the table of contents.
What are the Inuit/Aleut, American Indian, Germanic, and Romance/Celtic languages?
Name 5 of the 12 Midwest States.
What are choices: Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa?
Name 3 of the 5 Elevations for North America, the shading that goes with them and the unit of measure. Find the page in the atlas that covers this.
Choices: 1500-3000 meters - Orange-yellow, 600-1500 meters - dark yellow , 300-600 meters - light yellow, 150-300 meters - light green, and 0-150 meters- medium green.
Name where the lines of longitude (merdians) meet.
What are the poles?
The longitude line (meridians) meet in these 2 location.
What are the Poles?
Name the Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. (H.O.M.E.S)
Name the 2 continents that are on 1 land mass and name the mountain range that marks the division between them.
What are Europe and Asia and Ural Mountains?
This scale measures the size of an earthquake.
Bonus: 80% of all earthquakes happen in this __________ , an area in the _____________ ocean.
What is the Richter Scale?
Bonus: What is the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean.
The prime meridian passes through what country.
What is England?
~26°N, 77°W.......this is known as the Hurricane capital of the earth. Located north of the Tropic of Cancer and East of Florida. Use atlas page 85.
What is the (Great)Abaco Islands, Bahamas?
Name the 5 bodies of water that surround North America.
What are the Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Bering Sea, and Labrador Sea?