Geographical 101
5 Themes of Geography
Geography and Weather Mix-up
Native Americans
Early days of Mississippi
Antebellum MS
100

Rock formations where groundwater accumulates

Aquifer

100

How we are connected to regions, cultures, and people beyond our immediate environment.

Movement

100

Water that fills in underground cracks and spaces.

Groundwater

100

A large group that shared some common ancestry

Clan

100

Date MS became a state

December 10, 1817

100

MS cash crop

Cotton

200

Long-term average weather conditions.

Climate

200

This can be absolute or relative 

Location

200

Severe storm that develops in water/oceans.

Hurricane

200

Married outside of the clan.

Exogamy

200

The first elected governor of the state of MS.

David Holmes

200

Did the slave population increase or decrease with the invention of the Cotton Gin?

Increase

300

This describes the day-to-day conditions

Weather

300

Determined by physical or cultural characteristics

Place

300

Measures East and West of the Prime Meridian. 

Longitude

300

Married to several women.

Polygyny

300

Document that determined how a territory would become a state

Northwest Ordinance

300

True or False: Early MS settlers were farmers and merchants.

True

400

The cycle through which water moves between Earth and the atmosphere.

Hydrologic cycle

400

A satellite-based system that determines precise location.

GPS

400

Measures North and South of the equator

Latitude

400

The 3 largest Native American tribes that existed in the area that would become Mississippi. 

Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw

400

Who won the French and Indian War?

England (Great Britain)

400

Settlers were attracted to nearby markets located in ____ and ____.

Natchez and New Orleans

500

Water found above the surface.

Surface water

500

How individuals use, adapt to, or interact with the environment.

Human-Environment Interaction. 

500

A funnel-shaped cloud that forms when warm moist air meets colder air.

Tornado 

500

Searched for gold and silver and discovered the MS River.

Hernando de Soto (HDS)

500

The French and Indian war ended with the signing of this document____________.

Treaty of Paris 1763.

500

True or False: Did the MS Constitution of 1832 extend more gun rights to free, white men?

False: more voting rights

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