Seas and Lakes
What are Seas?
Arm of the ocean partially surrounded by land
What's an Archipelago?
Large chain of Islands
Tributaries
A river that flows into another river
HOW DO YOU SPELL THE OCEAN THAT STARTS WITH AN A!?!?!?!??!?!
ARCTIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Rain Shadow
When one side of a mountain range receives significantly more rainfall than the other because of the "shadow" it makes
What are Lakes?
Bodies of water completely surrounded by land
Canada Prairie Provinces
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
River Systems
A river and all its tributaries
What ocean is at the California beaches?
PACIFIC!
Orographic effect
Mountains influence weather patterns like precipitation, by moist air rising, leading to rain on the windward side and dry conditions on the leeward side.
Largest lake by volume
Baikal
What is the city at the northeast corner of Mexico, and the city at the northwest corner of Mexico?
Matamoros and Tijuana
Drainage Basins
Area of land that is drained by a river
What Ocean is on the South Carolina beaches?
Atlantic!
What is GIS?
Geographic Information Systems
Largest lake by surface area
Superior
What Peninsula sticks off of Mexico?
Yucatan Peninsula
What is a River?
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or something else.
What ocean is down at the south pole?
Southern
What is GPS?
Geographical Positioning System
Largest lake overall
Caspian sea
All 10 Canada provinces and all 3 of its territories ()
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.
Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon
4 main rivers in the US
Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Colorado
What ocean is between Africa and Australia?
Indian
What is a Isthmus?
Narrow land bridge that connects 2 larger land masses