What is Geography?
Earth's Physical Geography?
Earth's People
The US East of the Mississippi River
The US West of the Mississippi River
100
This is the term that describes the average weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
This is the layer of Earth that we stand on.
What is the crust?
100
War, famine, or natural disasters are all examples of these factors, the opposite of pull factors.
What are push factors?
100
The Great Lakes are shared between the United States and this country "up north".
What is Canada?
100
Largest, furthest north, and the most coastline are all titles held by this US state.
What is Alaska?
200
This line, as well as the International Date Line, separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
These processes work hand in hand together, changing surfaces like roads or even mountains.
What are weathering and erosion?
200
Like the first US Presidential election in 1789, these kinds of governments often vote in their leaders.
What are democracies?
200
The first Native Americans arrived via the land bridge between these two continents.
What is Asia and North America?
200
This American landform makes for great farmland.
What is the Great Plains?
300
This small ruler on a map shows the reader the size of area shown.
What is a scale bar.
300
Most of Earth's freshwater is found at the North and South Poles in these.
What are glaciers (or icecaps)?
300
This term is used to describe areas of low population densities.
What is rural?
300
Coal and oil are examples of these kinds of fuels, named after the remains of dinosaurs.
What are fossil fuels?
300
This "valley" in San Francisco is generally associated with the computer industry.
What is Silicon Valley?
400
This is the furthest south of the 7 continents.
What is Antarctica.
400
Maps that show relief describe altitudes relatively, while these kinds of physical maps describe altitudes with specific numbers.
What are elevation maps?
400
An example of regional dialect - the insects often called "lightning bugs" in the American South are more commonly referred to as this in the North.
What are fireflies?
400
This branch of the US government is made up of Congress and the House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
Over 10,000 Native Americans died in this march from the American South to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
This South American country is named after the Equator, as its capital city, Quito, sits at 0° latitude.
What is Ecuador?
500
This region of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, featuring cities such as Bad Axe and Caseville, received its name from a body part.
What is the thumb?
500
A Ford manufacturing plant vs a Ford auto dealership is an example of the difference between these tow sectors of the economy.
What is secondary and tertiary?
500
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are also know as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
Pictured here, the Alamo Church would eventually serve as a US fort, but it was built originally by settlers from this European country.
What is Spain?