Definitions
A scientist who studies the physical, environmental, and cultural features of a place.
What is a Geographer?
These are three of Maines Natural Resources
Atlantic Ocean, Trees, Minerals, Soil, Rivers and Lakes
An Animal with a hard shell instead of a backbone.
What is a crustacean?
He was born in Portland and was a famous Poet from Maine.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This is the description of a location in relation to another.
What is a relative location?
A scientist who studies the formation of the earth over millions of years.
What is a Geologist?
This is the highest peak in Maine that rises almost 5,268 ft high.
What is Mt. Katahdin?
A deep narrow inlet in the sea with steep cliffs on either side.
What is a fjord?
He was the richest man in the world during this time and bought land that later became Acadia National Park.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
These are regions that show what government that people have.
What is a political region?
A mineral often used in electronics.
What is Tourmaline?
This is a pale green plant that covers the tundra.
What is Lichen?
The elevation above which trees do not grow.
What is the timberline?
The Line that runs north to south and splits the globe into east and west hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These areas make up the lower coastland region
What are the South Coast, Mid Coast and Downeast?
The open area, mainly rocky and frozen ground.
What is the Tundra?
These are huge sheets of ice.
What are Glaciers?
Lines that run east to west but measure north to south.
What are lines of Latitude?
The line that runs east to west but splits the globe into north and south hemisphere.
What is the equator?
People started to arrive in Maine approximately this many years ago.
what is 11,000 years ago?
What is an Esker or Kame
A place that has mostly the same landforms.
What are Land Regions?
What are lines of Longitude?
This is a place on the map that is pinpointed by using latitude and longitude.
What is an exact/absolute location?
This Mountain range runs from Alabama to Newfoundland.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?