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These are the 7 continents
What are North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Antartica, Africa, Australia.
This is the innermost section of the Earth.
What is the core?
This type of factor cause people to move awau from where they live.
What are push factors?
These two counrties are part of same huge landmass in North America and occupy four-fifths of the entire continent.
What are US and Canada?
Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent, due to unintentional, devastating results of the introduction of this to th New World.
What is disease?
These are the 5 oceans.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic Southern.
This part of the Earth is the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere combined.
What is the biosphere?
This type of boundary is based on physical features of the land.
What is a natural boundary?
These are the three subregions of interior lowlands of North America.
What are Canadian Shield, Great Plains and Interior Plains.
The system of exchange of plants, animals, knowledge, and technology between the New World and Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This theme of Geography has two types...relative and absolute.
What is location?
This section of the Earth is the thin layer of rock at Earth’s surface.
What is the crust?
This type of government one individual ruler who has complete power over the people and the country.
What is a dictatorship?
These gentle sloping mountains, are 1600 miles long and run north to south, from Newfoundland in Canada to Alabama in the US, and are the oldest mountain range in North America.
What are the Appalachians?
These people came to North America 13,000 years ago, they developed separate cultures and occupied the continent, undisturbed until the 15th century.
Who were the Nomads?
This type of map shows the names of cities, states, countries and their boundary lines.
What is a political map?
This theory states that all 7 continents were once one huge supercontinent.
What is Continental Drift theory?
This term means production and exchange of goods and services.
What is economy (economics)?
The Longest and busiest river system in North America runs north and south from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, and its main tributaries are the Ohio and Missouri rivers.
What is the Mississippi River?
This Spanish settlement is the oldest permanent European settlement in the US.
What is St. Augustine?
This theme of geography answers the question..."How do people relate to the physical world around them?"
What is HEI?
This section of the Earth surround the core.
What is the mantle?
This term refers to materials on or in the Earth if technology can transform them into goods with economic value.
What are natural resources?
This point in the Rocky Mountains marks the separation between where rivers flow eastward and westward in the US, it is also the line of highest point in the Rockies.
What is the Continental Divide?
In 1617, Europeans living in North America began to bring Africans to America to work as slave labor here.
What are cotton and tobacco plantations?