The Geography of Our World
Land and Water
Resources of the U.S.
Geography Vocab Words
Who or what am I?
100
Geographers ask three questions about a place: Where is it? What is it like there? and.....
What is Why is it there?
100
Tectonic plates pushed together fifty million years ago to form.....
What is the Rocky Mountains?
100
We must protect our natural resources and use them ______________.
What is wisely?
100
All the surroundings and conditions that affect living things.
What is the environment?
100
I am the second longest river in North America. Who am I?
What is the Mississippi River?
200
There are four oceans in our world: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and .....
What is Arctic?
200
The Appalachian Mountains have been shaped by ______________.
What is erosion?
200
Trees and other living things are ___________________ resources.
What is renewable?
200
The study of people and places on Earth.
What is geography?
200
I was formed by volcanoes. Who am I?
What are the Cascade Mountains?
300
One half of the earth's surface.
What is a hemisphere?
300
Over time, ___________ erosion made the Grand Canyon wider.
What is wind?
300
Minerals like _____________ and _____________ are nonrenewable resources.
What is copper and iron?
300
An area that is defined by certain features.
What is a region?
300
I am coal, oil, and natural gas. Who am I?
What are fossil fuels?
400
The line of latitude at zero degrees that divides the earth into a northern and southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
400
Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, was formed by melting _______________.
What are glaciers?
400
Wind, water, and the sun are ______________ resources because we use their energy as they flow or move.
What is flow?
400
A huge mass of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
400
I am coal, copper, or iron. What am I?
What is nonrenewable resources?
500
The line of longitude that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
500
Many major _____________ have been built and grown beside rivers because of shipping routes and drinking / farming.
What are cities?
500
A ___________________ is an energy source formed by the remains of things that lived long ago.
What is fossil fuel?
500
An area with a low center surrounded by higher land.
What is a basin?
500
I am something that is made from natural resources. What am I?
What is a product?
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