Gee...Where Are We?
(Geography)
This Land is Your Land...
(Landforms)
Be Resourceful!
(Resources)
Let's Get Regional!
(Regions of the U.S.)
Give a Hoot!
(People and the Land)
100
The study of the world and the people and things that live there.
What is Geography?
100
A feature on the surface of the land.
What is a landform?
100
Resources that cannot be replaced when they are used up.
What are Non-Renewable Resources?
100
An area that has one or more features in common.
What is a Region?
100
The surroundings in which people, plants and animals live.
What is an environment?
200
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth.
What is the equator?
200
A high, steep sided area rising above the land.
What is a plateau?
200
Resources that can only be used at a certain time or place.
What are Flow Resources?
200
The system people use to produce goods and services.
What is economy?
200
A community of plants and animals and their surrounding soil, air and water.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Located to the East of Africa and to the North West of Australia, this body of water is named for the country directly to it's North.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
Rockies, Appalachian and Ozarks.
What is a mountain range (mountains)?
300
Not having as much of something as people would like.
What is scarcity?
300
The four major regions of the U.S.
What are the Northeast, Mid-West, South and West?
300
Two human activities that change the land.
What are digging mines and building highways? (answers may vary)
400
These two countries are the only ones on Earth that are completely in the Southern Hemisphere.
What are Australia and Antarctica.
400
The type of weather a place has over a long period of time. It includes the temperature and the amount of precipitation a place gets.
What is climate?
400
The thing you give up when you decide to do or have something else.
What is an opportunity cost?
400
It is what happens when people make the goods they are best able to produce with the resources they have.
What is specialization?
400
The process by which water and wind wear away the land.
What is erosion?
500
The imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
The bodies of water bordering Michigan, Wisconsin, New York and Minnesota in the northern United States are called this.
What are The Great Lakes?
500
A person and the skills an knowledge he or she brings to a job.
What are human resources?
500
Someone who buys goods and services.
Who is a consumer?
500
Anything that makes the soil, air and water dirty.
What is pollution?
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