33°N, 90° W is an example of this.
What is absolute location?
There are ______ soil regions in Mississippi.
What are 12?
This is the name of the highest point in Mississippi.
What is Woodall Mountain / What is Mount Woodall?
This major river forms Mississippi's western border with Arkansas and Northern Louisiana.
What is the Mississippi River?
These are the four states that border Mississippi.
What are Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
This technology can be used to determine latitude and longitude.
What is GPS?
This natural disaster occurred in August of 2005 and destroyed much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This war ended the Antebellum period in Mississippi.
What is the Civil War?
This is the name of all water found above ground.
What is surface water?
This is the name of all water found underground.
What is groundwater?
This hurricane struck Mississippi on August 17, 1969.
What is Hurricane Camille?
This body of water defines Mississippi's southern border.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This is the official term for Water-farming.
What is aquaculture?
Armadillos, raccoons, and white-tailed deer are all examples of this scientific term for animals.
What is fauna?
Pine trees, Magnolia trees, and ferns are examples of this scientific term for plants.
What is flora?
Scientists who study the origin, history, and composition of Earth’s crust.
What are geologists?
Dark, funnel-shaped clouds with swirling winds that can measure over 200 mph.
What are tornadoes?
Small rivers, or streams, that flow into a larger river.
What are tributaries?
This is the official term for the six large manmade lakes found in Mississippi used to store and manage water resources?
What is a reservoir?
Gemstones, gravel, sand, and clay are all examples of what type of resource?
What are mineral resources?
A flat 2D representation of the Earth’s surface.
What is a map?
The area of land that drains into the tributaries and eventually into the larger rivers.
What is a drainage basin?
This natural disaster occurred on April 21, 1927
What is the Great Flood of 1927?
Someone who farms another man's land for a share of the crop known as?
What is a Sharecropper?
This is the Native American word for corn.
What is maize?