Landforms
Vocabulary
5 Themes of Geography
Maps / Globes
Other
100

These rivers form a natural border between the United States and neighboring countries

What is the Rio Grande River?

What is the St. Lawrence River?

100

The study of people, their environment and their resources

What is Geography?

100

The study of the physical features of an area relates to the theme of

What is place?

100

Map that shows natural features like mountains and rivers

What is a Physical Map?

100
Main purpose of Longitude and Latitude

What is to show exact location?

200

The longest and most important river system in the United States

What is the Mississippi River?

What is the Missouri River?

200

Shows Earth's features more accurately than a map

What is a Globe?

200

Traveled by railroad, plane, and ship is related to the theme of

What is Movement?

200

Map that shows how people make a living

What is an Economic Map?

200

Describe a Marine Climate

What is hot summers, mild winters, rainy?

300

A major feature of the Interior Plains is its

What is deposits of coal?

300

Weather experienced over a period of time

What is Climate?

300

Which theme does NOT relate to human activities

What is Location?

300

Why are maps more useful than globes

What is to show all of Earth's surface?

300

Geographers help historians study the past by

What is showing how people and land are related?

400
Region in which the Mississippi River crosses

What is the Interior Plains?

400

A person who makes maps

What is a Cartographer?

400

A region is an area that

What is that has similar physical or cultural characteristics?

400

Map that shows the boundaries that divide countries, states, etc.

What is a Political Map?

400

The Ohio River is a/an ____________ of the Mississippi River

What is a Tributary?

500

Region where the Great Salt Lake is located

What is the Intermountain Range?

500

The measured distance of Latitude and Longitude (in terms of degree)

What is Longitude - Degrees W?

What is Latitude - Degrees N?

500

Interaction is concerned with how people

What is change their environment?

500

A place that is located at 42 Degrees N / 88 Degrees W lies

What is North of the Equator?

500
North and South America are joined by an

What is an Isthmus?

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