Physical Features
Geographic Features
Latitude/Longitude
Vocabulary
Landforms/Bodies of Water
100
The ocean that lies in the western coast of the United States
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The study of our natural surroundings and how we interact with them.
What is a geography?
100
Lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is longitude?
100
The symbol on a map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
100
A smaller stream that feeds into a river.
What is a tributary?
200
The mountain range that is the 2nd largest mountain range in the United States. It is also located in the eastern part of our country.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
200
Words that describe bodies of water and land forms, like gulf and valley.
What is geographic terms?
200
Lines on a map that circle the Earth from east to west.
What is latitude?
200
The four main points on a compass rose is called this. North, South, West, and East.
What are cardinal directions?
200
A piece of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
300
This is the largest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River.
300
Bodies of water and landforms, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What is physical features?
300
The line a 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
300
Where the river empties into a larger body of water.
What is the mouth?
300
Are land that is mostly flat, with few trees.
What is a plain?
400
This flat area of our country is located west of the Mississippi River and East of the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Great Plains?
400
The most accurate map of the earth.
What is a globe?
400
The line at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Where the river begins.
What is a source?
400
A low area between ranges of mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
500
This large body of salt water is smaller than a sea or ocean and is located between Texas and Florida.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
500
A body of water that cuts into a mass of land.
What is a gulf?
500
The hemispheres that North America is located in.
What is the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
500
A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides. It is bigger than a cape.
What is a peninsula?
500
This is formed when soil is deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
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