Landforms
United States Physical Features
Map Skills
Bellwork Review
Economics
100
A large area of slow moving ice.
What is a glacier?
100
The largest freshwater lake system in the world.
What are the Great Lakes
100
Imaginary lines that measure east and west of the prime meridian.
What lines of longitude?
100
An increase in the percentage of people who live in cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Money that the government collects to raise money for the public good.
What are taxes?
200
A large, flat, elevated area of land.
What is a plateau?
200
The longest river in the United States. It flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi?
200
Mapmakers use this to represent the distances between points on a map.
What is a scale?
200
This type of government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country.
What is a communist government?
200
A tax on imports.
What is a tariff?
300
A piece of land that juts into the ocean.
What is a cape?
300
This river forms a partial border between Oregon and Washington State.
What is the Columbia River?
300
This explains what the symbols on a map represent.
What is a legend/Key?
300
Type of government that allows people to elect leaders and rule by majority.
What is a democracy?
300
A tax on items that we buy at the store.
What is sales tax?
400
An almost flat, treeless grassy plain.
What is a prairie?
400
This river forms the northern border of Kentucky.
What is the Ohio River?
400
Imaginary lines that measure north and south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
400
A massive clearing of trees.
What is deforestation?
400
The money that is deducted from your check and given to the government.
What is income tax?
500
A plain bordering a river formed from river deposits.
What is a flood plain?
500
This mountain range forms the eastern border of Tennessee and extends north all the way to Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Shows the cardinal directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
500
Having a variety of cultures in the same area.
What is cultural diversity?
500
A tax on tobacco, alcohol, gasoline, and certain luxury items.
What is an excise tax?
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