Geographical Terms
Imaginary lines that circle the earth horizontally and vertically to create absolute location coordinates
What are latitude and longitude?
The name of one Great Lake
What is Ontario, Michigan, Superior, Erie or Huron?
The most common language in Latin America
Que es espanol?
The most populous country in Africa
What is Nigeria?
The name of a country that is mostly made up of on ethnic and cultural group
What is a nation state?
The line that bisects the eastern and western hemispheres OPPOSITE the prime meridian
What is the anti meridian/180 degrees longitude.
The name for species that are not native to an area and often harm the ecosystem
What are invasive species?
The most populous country in Latin America
What is Brazil?
Usually referred to as the longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
The largest country in Europe by area
What is Russia? (yes, this is only the Europe part)
The 3 types of maps show how land is used, country boundaries and what types of plants grow in a place
What are economic/land use maps, political maps and vegetation maps?
The name of one of Canada's 5 regions
What is Core, Prairie, Northern, Pacific or Atlantic?
The term for a group of people who are native to an area
What is indigenous?
The number of regions Nigeria is split into
What is 3?
Name for a country that can no longer meet the basic needs of its population
What is a failed state?
The map that makes Greenland look WAY to big and Africa Way to small
What is a mercator map?
The two hemispheres Canada can be found in
What are northern and western?
The most common natural disaster in the Caribbean?
What is a hurricane?
The name of one of the two major rivers in Nigeria
What is Niger or Benue
The country where Mr. Kody thought he would buy a house, and where he actually did
What are Italy and The Netherlands?
These are the 5 themes of geography
What are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, regions?
The city on Lake Michigan where Mr. Kody grew up
What is Milwaukee?
The most lethal part of a hurricane
What is the storm surge?
The total number of countries in Africa
What is 54?
Three of the 5 basic factors that determine if a state is successful
What are security, political freedom, economic growth, quality of life, and national unity?