Geography
Latitude/Longitude
Geographic Terms
Oceans/Rivers
Miscellaneous
100
the number of oceans on Earth
What is four?
100
0 degree imaginary line that splits Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisperes
What is the equator?
100
land surrounded by water on all sides
What is an island?
100
the ocean that borders the U.S. on the west
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
3/4s of Earth's surface is covered by
What is water?
200
the number of continents on Earth
What is seven?
200
0 degree imaginary line that divides Earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
a landform surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
200
the ocean that borders the U.S. on the east
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
North, South, East, and West are called _______________ directions
What is cardinal directions?
300
the largest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi?
300
True or False? Lines of latitude are parallel and never cross
What is true?
300
formed when soil is deposited at the mouth of a river; usually in the shape of a triangle
What is a delta?
300
Earth's largest ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
the largest mountain range in the eastern United States
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
continent located in all four hemispheres
What is Africa?
400
another name for a line of latitude
What is parallel?
400
a smaller stream that runs into a river
What is a tributary?
400
the name for the place where a river begins
What is the source?
400
the largest mountain range in the western United States
What are the Rocky Mountains?
500
after Russia and then Canada, the third largest country in the world
What is the United States?
500
another name for a line of longitude
What is meridian?
500
two landforms that Luzena Stanley Wilson and her family crossed in their travels to California
What are the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains?
500
two rivers that form parts of the borders between the United States, Canada, and Mexico
What is the St. Lawrence River and the Rio Grande River?
500
True or False? Rivers and lakes have provided routes for ships and power for industry.
What is true
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