Continents
Basic Landforms
Famous US Landforms
Latitude and Longitude
Cartography
100
This is the name of the continent where we currently live.
What is North America?
100
This is an area of flat grassy land that some people might call "boring."
What is a plain?
100
This is the largest river in the US, running from Minnesota to Louisiana.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
This is the invisible line that circles the globe at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
100
This is the flowery name given to the directional key printed on a map or globe.
What is a compass rose?
200
Although it looks like a large island, this country is also considered to be a continent.
What is Australia?
200
Larger than a bay, this is an inlet of salty sea water. A famous one of these can be found off the southeastern coast of the United States between Florida and Texas.
What is a gulf?
200
This is the name of the large flat area of the Unites States that is east of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Great Plains?
200
This is the invisible line that circles the globe at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
This form of map is preferred by many cartographers because of its representative round shape and accurate portrayal of continent shape.
What is a globe?
300
This continent is the world's largest one.
What is Asia?
300
Thinner than a peninsula, there is a famous one of these types of landforms in Massachusetts.
What is a cape?
300
These two mountain ranges are the largest in the US. One is on the east coast, while the other is closer to the west coast.
What are the Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains?
300
This cold ocean is found at 75 degrees North Latitude and 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
300
Of the two types of invisible lines in a map, these are the lines that intersect with each other at the North and South Poles.
What are meridians of longitude?
400
This continent is south of Europe and north of Antarctica
What is Africa?
400
This is the name for a low-lying area of land between two mountain ranges.
What is a valley?
400
This river separates Mexico and the USA.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
This continent can be found at 90 degrees South Latitude and is also home to the South Pole and lots of penguins.
What is Antarctica?
400
These lines run parallel with each other, going the fat way around the world.
What are the parallels of latitude?
500
This continent is connected on its eastern edge with Asia.
What is Europe?
500
This is the name used for a smaller river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
500
These are the two largest tributaries that flow into the Mississippi River.
What are the Ohio and Missouri Rivers?
500
If you flew around the globe from east to west at 30 degrees South Latitude, you would fly over these three continents.
What are South America, Africa, and Australia?
500
This bird-like name is given to the four main directions of North, East, South, and West.
What are cardinal directions?
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