Vocabulary
World Geography
Physical Features of the United States
Geography of the United States
Landforms
100
the study of our natural surroundings and how we interact with them.
What is geography?
100
The continent that includes Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico.
What is North America?
100
The ocean that touches the western coast of the U.S.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100

These are the 4 cardinal directions of a compass

What is North, East, South, and West?

100
A landform surrounded on all sides by water.
What is an island?
200
Lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is longitude?
200
The continent that is both a country and a continent.
What is Australia?
200
The ocean that touches the east coast of the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
The state with the capital city of Denver.
What is Colorado?
200
A landform that is taller than the land around it which usually comes to a point at the top.
What is a mountain?
300
Bodies of water and landforms, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What are physical features?
300

This is the largest continent.

Asia

300
The name of the largest and longest mountain range in the U.S
What is the Rocky Mountain range?
300
The largest state in the U.S.
What is Texas?
300
A large body of water surrounded on three sides by land.
What is a gulf?
400
The most accurate map of Earth.
What is a globe?
400
This ocean lies south of Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400

Name of the longest and largest river in the U.S.

What is the Missouri River?

400
The capital city of the state of New York.
What is Albany?
400
A large piece of land extending into a body of water which is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
500
Lines on a map that circle the Earth from east to west.
What is latitude?
500
The continent that extends over all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
500
The flat grassland stretching from the Mississippi River basin to the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Great Plains?
500
The capital city of the state of California.
What is Sacramento?
500
Triangular piece of land and water located at the mouth of a river where it meets a large body of water.
What is a delta?
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