Geography Terms
North, east, south, and west are also known as
What are cardinal directions?
This part will always tell you the subject of the map.
What is the title?
This high and rugged mountain chain runs north from New Mexico, through Canada, and into Alaska.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This massive, rocky area is dotted with thousands of lakes and lies just below the Arctic.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This area is found between the Sierra Madre Occidental to the West and the Sierra Madre Oriental to the East.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
This imaginary line runs halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the Equator?
This diagram will always help you find your direction.
What is the compass rose?
These two states are not included in the lower 48.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
These native people have survived for thousands of years in the Arctic regions of North America.
Who are the Inuit?
This modern day city was built on top of Tenochtitlan, a city which, itself, was built on top of a lake.
What is Mexico City?
This imaginary line passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Need help estimating a given distance on a map? Try using this.
What is the scale bar?
This is the most common natural disaster. Sorry Dorothy.
What is flooding?
Sir John Franklin, an English naval officer, was one of many explorers who tried to find this through the Arctic Circle.
What is the Northwest Passage?
Widespread poverty helped lead to this in 1910.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
What is precipitation?
What is the key or legend?
Thanks to this idea that swept the nation, Lewis and Clark made their famous journey to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Jacques Cartier claimed eastern Canada in 1534 and gave it this "new" name.
What is New France?
What is the National Action Party?
This is the average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
Sometimes you need to look a little closer to a certain area. Try using this to help you out!
What is the locator map?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most famous leaders of this 1960s movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Canada's official Head of State is this British monarch.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Mexico is a member of NAFTA along with these two countries.
What is Canada and the US?