Where PA can be found
We live on this continent
What is North America?
The study of earth's features
What is geography?
Land that is higher than the surrounding area
What is a plateau?
More than one-half of Pennsylvania is covered in this natural feature
A force of nature that occurs within or on the earth
What is a natural force?
Pennsylvania's region (location) in the United States
What is northeast United States?
What are political boundaries?
Narrow passages through land with steep rocky sides through which water flows
What are gorges and glens?
This soft wood tree is Pennsylvania's state tree
What is hemlock?
The very, very slow moving process where rocks and soil move beneath the earth's surface that push against each other
What is folding?
Name both the body of water and state that borders Pennsylvania's northern border
What is Lake Erie and New York?
The number of people that live on a certain amount of land
What is population density?
The mountain chain that extends from Pennsylvania to Alabama
What is the Appalachian Mountain chain?
The number of state parks in Pennsylvania
What is 120?
A "crack" at a weak point in the land
What is faulting?
Name is the man-made boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Communities where many homes are built near or around a city or town
What are suburbs?
Type of water form that has moving waters like streams, rivers, and creeks
What is lotic water?
Animals that are hunted are known as
What is game animals?
Large ice sheets that covered PA during the Ice Age
What is glaciers?
Name the shape of the part of West Virginia that borders Pennsylvania
What is panhandle?
The average weather an area receives over many years
What is climate?
Our largest lentic water feature within our State's border
What is Conneaut Lake?
Name the agency that is in charge of hunting and fishing seasons in PA
What is the Pennsylvania Game Commission?
The processes that wear away land
What is erosion and weathering?