Land/Water Features
This is the largest of the types of water bodies on Earth.
What is an ocean?
This Native American tribe is known for living in igloos.
Who are the Inuit?
This is the Earth's largest ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the number of geographic regions of North America that we studied.
What is 8?
This imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude divides the Earth into a Northern and Southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
This is a landmass that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
This Native American tribe is known for being nomadic and following their food source, buffalo, across the Great Plains.
Who are the Lakota?
This body of water was used by the French and Spanish explorers as a route to Mexico and other parts of the world.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This region is characterized by broad lowlands and many excellent harbors.
What is the Coastal Plains region?
Cactus Hill is located in Southeastern Virginia near this river.
What is the Nottoway River?
This is an area of flat, or almost flat, treeless, grassy land.
What is a plain?
The Potlatch was a traditional celebration for this group of Native Americans.
Who are the Kwakiutl?
This body of water is the most famous river in the U.S.
What is the Mississippi River?
This region is home to the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
These are the Earth's 5 oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, & Southern Ocean?
This is a large area of sea or ocean partially enclosed by land.
What is a gulf or bay?
The Iroquois participated in three sisters farming. The crops included were ____, ____, & _____.
What are squash, corn, & beans.
These are the two rivers branching off the Mississippi River that we studied.
What are the Missouri River and the Ohio River?
This region is located west of Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades.
What the Basin and Range?
This imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude divides the the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is a the prime meridian?
This is a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water such as a river.
What is a tributary?
These are the 5 Native American tribes we studied.
Who are the Inuit, the Kwakiutl, the Pueblo, the Lakota, and the Iroquois?
Name the 5 Great Lakes.
What are Lake Michigan, Lake Eerie, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, & Lake Superior?
These are the geographic regions of North America that we studied. Name all 8.
What are the Coastal Range, Basin & Range, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Interior Lowlands, Appalachian Mountains, Coastal Plains, & Canadian Shield?
These are the 7 rivers of North America we studied.
What are the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado, Rio Grande, & Columbia River.