Vocabulary
Lines that circle the Earth from East to West.
What are lines of Latitude?
A body of water that is part of a sea or ocean and is partly enclosed by land.
What is a bay?
The mountain range that runs on the East side of the USA.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The FIFTH ocean.
What is the Southern Ocean?
The largest river on the West Coast of the USA.
What is the Columbia River?
The study of our natural surroundings and how we interact with them.
What is Geography?
Land that is almost completely surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
The river that forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The continent that can be found in the southeastern hemisphere at 30 degrees South latitude and 135 degrees East longitude.
What is Australia?
The points on a compass that are called northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
What are the intermediate points?
Lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is a meridian of longitude?
A place where a river empties into a another body of water.
What is the mouth of a river?
The flat area of land that runs on the South side of the US by the Gulf of Mexico?
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
The imaginary line that starts at 180 degrees longitude and runs halfway around the world from the Prime Meridian.
What is the International Date Line?
A stream or river that empties into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
Words that describe bodies of water and landforms, like gulf and valley.
What are Geographic terms?
A triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
The Great Lake that is southeast of Lake Superior.
What is Lake Huron?
The ocean that is East of Africa, South of Asia, and West of Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
One of the Mississippi River's largest tributaries.
What are the Ohio or Missouri Rivers?
Bodies of water and landforms, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What are Physical Features?
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
The river that flows from Lake Ontario and empties into the Atlantic Ocean, and forms part of the border between the US and CANADA.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
The continent that is one of your possessions.
What is YOUR ROPE? (Europe)
The mountain range that includes Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the USA.
What is the Sierra Nevada mountain range?