5 Themes of Geography
Mapping
Landforms
Idaho Geography
Vocabulary
100

People in Weiser, Idaho can access the internet to get news about Israel.

What is Movement?

100

There are seven of these in the world.

What are continents?

100

A large crack in the Earth formed by a river or earthquake.

What is a canyon?

100

The largest river in the United States to lie completely inside of one state.

What is the Salmon River?

100

A type of imaginary line that circles the globe from north to south.

What is longitude?

200

People who live in Alaska wear thick layers of clothing.

What is Human Environment Interaction (HEI)?

200

This feature explains symbols and colors on a map.

What is the Key?

200

A strip of land that extends (sticks out) like a finger into a body of water.  Florida, for example.

What is a Peninsula?

200

This landform created Hells Canyon.

What is the Snake River?

200

Name given to rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

What is precipitation?

300

French is the official language in Montreal, Quebec.

What is region?

300

This feature explains directions on a map.

What is a Compass Rose?

300

A large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.

What is a Plateau?

300

This is the largest lake in Idaho.

What is Lake Pend'Orielle?

300

Average type of weather found in area over a long period of time.

What is Climate?

400

Florida is south of South Carolina and north of Cuba.

What is relative location?

400

Type of map that shows boundaries and borders between states and countries.

What is a Political Map?

400

This is a large area of flat land.

What is a Plain?

400

This is the deepest canyon in North America.

What is Hells Canyon?

400

Term given to the Main Line of Longitude.

What is Prime Meridian?

500

The southern U.S. is sometimes called the Bible Belt, because it has a high percentage of people who are Christian.

What is Region?

500

This type of map shows elevation and landforms. 

What is Physical Map?

500

This narrow strip of land connects two larger areas of land.

What is an Isthmus?

500

These are the largest Sand Dunes in North America.

What are the Bruneau Sand Dunes?

500

The theory that the Earth's crust slides around on massive underground plates.

What is Theory of Plate Tectonics?

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