Miscellaneous
Vocab
Natural Resources
Landforms
Maps
100
What is Geography?
The study of our Earth, both land and water.
100
What are the 4 most important natural resources?
air, water, sunlight, and soil
100
What is a peninsula?
A landform that has water on all sides but one.
100
What is a compass rose?
A device used to tell you the direction, either north, east, south or west.
200
Name the 4 oceans
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic and Indian
200
What is a season?
A time of the year, either Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall
200
What natural resource do we use to make paper, tables, and syrup?
Trees
200
What is the low area between mountains and hills called?
A Valley
200
Which country is below and above the United States?
Mexico and Canada
300
What happens if you drink the salt water from an ocean?
You get sick!
300
What is a capital?
A city where leaders of a country do state work.
300
What natural resource do we use to make cans, tools, and pipes?
Iron
300
What is a flat area called?
A plain
300
How many states make up the United States?
50
400
How is the weather in the south different than the weather in the north?
It is warmer in the south
400
What does recycle mean?
When you reuse something again and again
400
What is a natural resource?
Things that we take from the Earth in it's natural form to be used.
400
How would you define an island?
A landform that has water on all sides or going all the way around it.
400
Name all the 7 of the continents.
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia
500
How can we save our resources?
recycle, use less water, plant new trees, use less of something, reuse items
500
What is a single stream of water that flows into an ocean or a lake?
A river
500
What natural resource do we use to make glass?
sand
500
What is the difference between a mountain and a hill?
A mountain is bigger than a hill
500
Name the Planet, Continent, Country, State, and City we live in that order.
Earth, North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
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