Earth/Geography Glossary
The two movements of the earth.
What are rotation and revolution?
The world's largest island is in North America.
What is Greenland?
The State know for making maple syrup.
What is Vermont?
Nicaragua is between these 2 bodies of water.
What are the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea?
Canada's border consists of these 3 oceans and 1 country.
What are the Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, and the US?
A ring of coral that encloses a pool of seawater.
What is an atoll?
The number of time zones the US & Canada span.
What is 6?
A replica of Plymouth colony is in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
This is the official language of Belize.
What is English?
The 2nd largest bay in the world is in Canada.
What is Hudson Bay?
The imaginary vertical lines that measure the globe east and west.
What are longitutde lines?
This is the largest freshwater system in the world.
What is the Great Lakes system?
Daniel Webster wrote his dictionary in this state.
What is Connecticut?
This sea creature can survive in the fresh water of Lake Managua.
What is the bull shark?
The coats of these two animals change color with the seasons.
What are the arctic fox and the snowshoe hare?
A plant or animal that lives naturally in only one specific geographic location and nowhere else in the world.
What is an endemic species?
Tornado Alley is located here.
What is the central United States?
The highest mountian in the Northeast is in this state.
What is New Hampshire?
Diverse in culture, united in Pride is this country's motto.
What is Belize?
This native group has passed down a musical tradition called throat-singing.
Who are the Inuit?
The combination number and letter that pinpoints any place on the globe.
What is a coordinate?
North America lies in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western hemispheres?
These four states have part of their borders with Canada.
What are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire & New York?
The range of inches of rainfall per year in the Belize rainforest.
What is 60 - 175 inches?
The Metis people group are descended from these two bloodlines.
Who are the French fur traders and the Native women?