This often large and tall rock formation has a peak and steep slopes.
What is a mountain?
100
The general direction in which you must travel from Phoenix in order to see the Grand Canyon.
What is north?
100
This body of water is completely surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
100
This land formation is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
100
The symbol on a map that shows navigational direction.
What is a compass rose?
200
A curved rock formation that is caused by erosion.
What is an arch?
200
This river created the Grand Canyon through the process of erosion.
What is the Colorado River?
200
A large expanse of salt water, especially any of the Earth's five main such areas, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic.
What is an ocean?
200
This land formation is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
An imaginary circle around Earth that is the same distance from the North and South Poles and divides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300
The approximate number of years that it took to create the Grand Canyon through erosion.
What is 5.7 or 5.4 million years?
300
A channel joining large bodies of water or a narrow body of water that joins two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
300
An island chain or group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
300
The number of hemispheres the Earth is divided into on a flat map of the globe.
What is 4? Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western
400
A land area that is relatively flat and considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
What is a plateau?
400
The length of the Grand Canyon, also considered the length of the river that runs through the Grand Canyon.
What is 277 miles?
400
A large stream of water that empties into a lake or ocean, or other body of water.
What is a river?
400
A broad expanse of flat land covered in grass or prairie.
What is a plain or the Great Plains?
400
Two sets of imaginary lines on globes that are used to measure distances on Earth.
What is latitude and longitude?
500
An opening in the earth's crust through which molten lava, ash, and gases are ejected.
What is a volcano?
500
Also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, or earth pyramid.
What is a hoodoo?
500
A long, narrow inlet with steep sides created in a valley by glacial activity.
What is a fjord?
500
A narrow strip of land that connects to larger land areas.
What is an isthmus?
500
The ratio of distance on a map to distance on the ground.