Vocabulary
Landmarks
Continents/Oceans
Regions of the US
Miscellaneous
100
The study of the planet Earth and its people.
What is geography?
100

This national monument is located in South Dakota.

What is Mount Rushmore?

100
The number of continents.
What is 7?
100

Number of regions in the US.

What is 5?

100

What is the vocabulary word that is defined as: How goods and services are made and exchanged.

Economy

200
One of the seven large areas of land on Earth.
What is a continent?
200

This is the capital of the United States.

What is Washington, D.C.?

200

The continent do we live on?

What is North America?

200

The nickname for The Midwest.

What is America's Breadbasket?

200

The most important influence on the Earth's climate.

What is the sun?

300
A fixed point that is zero degrees longitude and runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300

An area of the Earth's surface that geographers define by certain similar characteristics. It answers the question: How are places on Earth alike and different?

What is region?

300

How many oceans are there?

What is 5?

300

The region of the US that we live in.

What is the Midwest?

300

What region has the 13 original colonies as part of it?

What is the Northeast?

400

An imaginary line around the earth, located at 0 degrees latitude.  It divides the earth into the northern and southern hemisphers.

What is the equator?

400

This city is known as the Emerald City.

What is Seattle Washington?

400

Name all continents.

What are North America, South American, Antartica, African, Asia, Australia, and Europe?

400

Name all 5 the regions of the US.

What is the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, West and the Southwest?

400
Define the vocabulary word:  natural resource.

What are raw materials that come from the natural environment, and are used to make things.

500

A drawing on a map that tells you the direction of places.

What is the compass rose?

500

The Devil's Tower is located in what region?

What is the West?

500

Name the 5 main oceans.

What is Indian, Arctic, Pacific, Souther, and Atlantic?

500

Which region has only 4 states?

What is the Southwest?
500
Name the large mountain range that stretches from Alaska to New Mexico in the West.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
M
e
n
u