Landforms
A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
The continent where the Amazon Rainforest is located.
What is South America?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A tool used on maps to show directions like north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
A large, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
The smallest continent by land area.
What is Australia?
The ocean located to the east of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This term refers to the height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
This U.S. mountain range stretches from Maine to Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
A deep valley with steep sides, often carved by a river.
What is a canyon?
The continent that is home to the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
The ocean that touches the west coast of Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The large, flat area in the central U.S. known for its farming.
What are the Great Plains?
A landform where a river meets an ocean, is often shaped like a triangle.
What is a delta?
The only continent that is also a country.
What is Australia?
The coldest and most southern ocean.
What is the Artic Ocean?
The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface
This U.S. landmark is a famous canyon located in Arizona.
What is the Grand Canyon?
These large, slow-moving bodies of ice can carve out valleys as they move.
What are glaciers?
The continent where we live.
What is North America?
The ocean found between Africa and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The process where water, wind, or ice breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This desert covers parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada.
What is the Mojave Desert?