Basic Geography
Themes of Geography
Map of North America
North America at a Glance
Regions of Canada and the US
100
Lines we use to give absolute location.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
100
Answers: "Where is it? Why is it there?"
What is location?
100
The country that is north of the United States.
What is Canada?
100
The countries that make up North America.
What are Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Greenland?
100
This region of the United States has the largest cities and most dense population of the country.
What is the Northeast?
200
Landforms, climate, bodies of water, and plant life are all examples of this.
What are physical characteristics?
200
Answers: "What is it like there?"
Place
200
The country that is north of Mexico.
What is the United States?
200
The Rocky Mountains, Death Valley, and the Great Lakes are examples of this.
What are landforms of North America?
200
This region of the United States is known for its agriculture and corporate farms.
What is the Midwest?
300
When humans make changes in their behavior to meet their needs based on where they live.
What is adapt?
300
Answers: "What is the relationship between humans and their environment?"
Human-environment interaction
300
The state that is west of Canada, but is a part of the United States.
What is Alaska?
300
This has made North America a leader in many aspects of the world.
What is technology?
300
This region of the United States is known for its natural resources.
What is the West?
400
When food, manufactured items, or any other items come from one country into another.
What is movement of goods?
400
Answers: "How and why places are related to one another?"
Movement
400
The country that is northeast of Canada.
What is Greenland?
400
Immigration from Spain, Europe, and China into North America are examples of this.
What is movement?
400
This region of Canada is the wealthiest in the country, most populated area, and has the most natural resources.
What is Ontario?
500
An area that has unifying characteristics such as language and/or religion.
What is a region?
500
Answers: "How and why one area is similar to or different than another area?"
Region
500
The oceans that are east (write first) and west (write second) of the United States.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
500
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) allows tax-free trade between these countries.
What are Canada, Mexico, and the United States?
500
This region of Canada has a Rocky Mountain barrier between it and the rest of the country.
What is The Plains and British Columbia?
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