Terminology
A body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
The mountain range with the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
What is the Sierra Nevadas?
The imaginary line running around the middle of our Earth.
What is the Equator?
This state's nickname is the Grand Canyon State.
What is Arizona?
A plain is a flat, or nearly flat area of land. This is an area of high, flat or mainly flat land.
What is a plateau?
Earth writing.
What is geography?
The mountain range that is the continental divide in the United States.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
A unit of measurement represented in lines of latitude.
What are degrees?
This Great Lake is the only one completely inside the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
These types of forests are along the Equator.
What are rain forests?
Narrow passages of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
The mountain range which is the continental divide of South America?
What is the Sierra Madres?
The two hemispheres created by 0° latitude.
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
These poles are not fixed locations.
What is the magnetic poles?
These are at 23.5°N and 23.5°S.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
Depending on spelling—capital or capitol—this has two meanings.
What is a city that is a political center, or a building where government business is centered?
Geologists call these the oldest mountains in the United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What are South America, Africa, and Asia?
A compass works because our Earth is basically one big one of these.
What is a magnet?
The Prime Meridian runs through this European city for which it is also sometimes called.
What is Greenwich, England?
A patch of land that has been forced to have desert-like conditions because mountain ranges block plant-growing, rainy weather.
What is a rain shadow?
This mountain range include the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Appalachian Mountain Range?
This Asian country is crossed by 0° latitude.
What is Indonesia?
This geographical pole is located in the ocean, and not on land.
What is the North Pole?
This is what we call the event of one tectonic plate sliding underneath another tectonic plate.
What is subduction?