Oceans
Erosion
Geography
Rivers
Miscellaneous
100
The name of the land that borders oceans.
What is the coast?
100
The wearing away of land is called this.
What is erosion?
100
This ocean is at the top of the globe. Santa Claus can be found there too.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
100
A river is made of this kind of water.
What is fresh water?
100
When water overflows its banks and covers land that is normally dry, a ___________has happened.
What is a flood?
200
The ocean that borders Massachusetts. This is the ocean the Pilgrims sailed across in the Mayflower.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
When the ocean takes away land, it forms this.
What is a cliff?
200
This part of the United States is completely surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
What is Hawaii?
200
Name 2 ways a river can start
What is: It can start at a lake OR from heavy rains or melting snow?
200
Most floods are harmful or helpful?
What is harmful?
300
The biggest ocean in the world. When you go to Ocean Beach, you are looking at it.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
When the ocean leaves land, it forms this.
What is a beach?
300
If you were at the beach in Los Angeles, this is the ocean you would be looking at.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Name two ways rivers can end.
What is: running into another body of water (like a lake or ocean) or disappearing underground?
300
What is one harmful thing a flood can do?
What is damage homes, kill people, damage crops?
400
The Ocean between Australia and Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
Erosion can turn rocks and shells into this (if the waves are powerful enough).
What is sand?
400
If you were at the beach in Maine, this is the ocean you would be looking at.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
The reason a river flows quickly.
What is the land is steep?
400
What is one helpful thing floods can do?
What is make the soil richer for crops?
500
Oceans are made up of this kind of water.
What is salt water?
500
Does erosion happen instantly or over time?
What is over time?
500
This amount of the earth is made of water.
What is 3/4?
500
Through erosion, a river can carve this into the land.
What is a deep valley or canyon?
500
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
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