Geography Basics
The number of continents
What is 7?
A symbol on a map that shows directions
What is a compass rose?
What is 50?
The capital of North Carolina
What is Raleigh?
What is Lake Michigan?
The number of oceans.
A map showing man-made boundaries like states, major cities, & capitals
What is a political map?
It gets colder when you travel in what directions, away from the Equator?
What is North and South?
The mountain range that runs through western North Carolina
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Great Lake that begins with S
What is Lake Superior?
An imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere?
What is the equator?
A map showing major geographical features like rivers, mountains, bordered countries, and coastal oceans.
What is a physical map?
Longitude and Latitude, together, help locate exact locations on a:
What is a map?
The three regions of North Carolina
What is the Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain?
Great Lake that begins with H
What is Lake Huron?
The four hemispheres
What is Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western?
Latitude at 0 degrees is known as the:
What is the equator?
The number of Great Lakes
What is 5?
The coastline of North Carolina is called the Outer:
What is Outerbanks?
Great Lake that begins with E
What is Lake Erie?
An imaginary line that divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is the prime meridian?
The acronym used to help remember the Great Lakes
What is H.O.M.E.S
Name 5 major cities in North Carolina
What is Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, Wilmington, or Asheville?
Great Lake that begins with O
What is Lake Ontario?