Hot, humid, and full of tourists, this region is known for agriculture - particularly citrus trees!
What is the southeastern region?
100
These two island territories were a strategic objective for both the United States and Japan during World War II.
What are Guam and American Samoa?
100
These landmarks are man-made - Mount Rushmore or the White House, for example.
What are cultural landmarks?
100
These two countries are America's neighbors that directly 'touch' the United States.
What are Canada and Mexico?
100
This is a region's weather over time.
What is climate?
200
Home to megacities such as New York, this region is considered by many to be 'America's capital' - or, the place where the most important economic decisions are made, at least.
What is the Northeast?
200
This Caribbean island nation is closest to the U.S. - and guarantees U.S. citizenship to all born there.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
These landmarks were created by nature - the Grand Canyon and the Everglades, for example.
What are natural landmarks?
200
Borders are necessary for preventing this from breaking out between two countries.
What is war?
200
This two-word term refers to all the things found in nature that humans can exploit for their own use.
What are natural resources?
300
This region is hot, dry, and makes quite a bit of its money through precious mineral extraction.
What is the southwest region?
300
A 'c'-word that refers to taking over another nation's territory violently. It's how we got most of our territories!
What is conquest?
300
Landmarks are an important source of pride and national this 'i'-word.
What is identity?
300
A border is this type of boundary, a word that combines 'geography' and 'political.'
What is geopolitical?
300
Countries have long fought over gold and this precious liquid, which led Japan to attack the United States in order to gain access to it.
What is oil?
400
Cold and home to dense forests and powerful volcanos, this region also has a thriving fishing industry.
What is the Pacific Northwest region?
400
This island does not guarantee U.S. citizenship to its people simply for being born there - you have to have at least 1 parent who is a U.S. citizen, too.
What is American Samoa?
400
Other countries have landmarks, too - the Colosseum in this country, for instance.
What is Italy?
400
Borders help citizens of a country feel this 'n'-word, the idea that we belong to and are proud of our nation.
What is nationalism?
400
This term refers to specifically and exactly where a place is on a map - not in relation to some other place.
What is absolute location?
500
This region (America's 'breadbasket') is home to failing manufacturing cities, such as Detroit.
What is the Midwest Region?
500
Puerto Rico is to the east of this island, which includes the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
500
Yellowstone park sits on a massive one of these, a type of volcano.
What is a supervolcano?
500
Borders limit who and what territory a government must take care of, this 'j'-word.
What is jurisdiction?
500
While river and sea-faring societies trade and interact with others, these elevated societies tend to develop in isolation and mistrust outsiders.