Basic Geography
Themes of Geography
North American Geography
Physical Features of North America
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Bonus!
100
The lines we use to give absolute location.
What is longitude and latitude?
100
Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human-Environment Interaction
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
100
What are Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Greenland?
What are the countries that make up North America?
100
A vast, treeless expanse of tundra and ice. The ground is dominated by permafrost (soil that remains frozen year-round), making traditional farming impossible
What is the Arctic/ Subarctic?
100
May 14, 1804 to September 23rd, 1806
When did the Expedition take place?
100
The United States of America's capitol city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
A name that describes the subject of a map.
What is a map title?
200
Answers: "Where is it? Why is it there?"
What is Location?
200
The country that is north of Mexico and south of Canada.
What is the United States of America?
200
Dense, deciduous forests and rolling hills. The region is characterized by a "four-season" climate with humid summers and snowy winters.
What are the Northeastern Woodlands?
200
This was the name of the event that led to the Lewis and Clark's Expedition.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
200
This was Toussaint Charbonneau's made job prior to joining the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is fur trapper and trader?
300
A circle showing the cardinal directions printed on a map or chart.
What is a compass rose?
300
Answers "What is it like there?"
What is Place?
300
A major North American river and the chief river of the United States, longest river in the U.S.
Hint: This the river that Lewis and Clark used to start their expedition to journey Westward.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
A mix of coastal plains, fertile river valleys, and the rugged Appalachian Mountains. The climate is humid and subtropical, with long growing seasons.
What are the Southeastern Woodlands?
300
This was the name of the President who purchased the Louisiana Territory.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
The nickname of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau's son
What is Pomp?
400
An area on a map, usually a chart or table, which explains any of symbols on a map.
What is a key or legend?
400
Answers "What is the relationship between humans and their environments?"
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
400
The largest and deepest ocean. Also, the ocean that touches the West coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
High-altitude deserts and the Colorado Plateau. It is a land of dramatic verticality—massive mesas, deep sandstone canyons (like Canyon de Chelly), and towering volcanic "plugs" (like Shiprock).
Water is scarce. Life revolved around hidden springs, seasonal "washes" (arroyos) that fill during monsoons, and major rivers like the San Juan and Colorado.
What is Southwest or Plains?
400
This is the city that Lewis and Clark started their journey in 1804
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
400
The Inca, Aztez, and Mayan are all examples of
What are Mesoamerican tribes?
500
Horizontal and vertical lines drawn on a map that include letters and numbers to help find location.
What is a grid system?
500
Answers "How and why places are related to one another?"
What is Movement?
500
What is Mexico?
500
Tropical islands (the Greater Antilles) featuring white-sand coasts, mangrove swamps, and lush, mountainous interiors. Most of these islands are volcanic in origin. Surrounded by the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic.
What is the Caribbean?
500
This is the name of the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark during their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
500
Every civilization has these
What are G.R.A.P.E.S. of civilization?
600
Landforms, climate, bodies of water, and plant life are all examples of this/
What are physical characteristics?
600
Answers "How and why one area is similar to or different than another area?"
What is Region?
600
This is the number of states the U.S. has.
What is 50 states?
600
A "bowl" between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. Because water cannot flow out to the ocean, it collects in salty flats or evaporates. It is a high-desert region of basin and range topography (flat valleys separated by parallel mountain chains)
What is the Great Basin?
600
This was the main purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
What is to find a practical water route to the Pacific Ocean for trade and to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory?
600
This was the name of Lewis and Clark's dog.
What is Seaman?