Physical and Cultural Geography
Features of the Northeast
Features of the USA: Bodies of Water
Features of the USA: Landforms
Challenge (Double Points!) *If Time*
100
A lake, river, and ocean are examples of this physical feature.
What is bodies of water?
100
This feature attracts travelers looking to enjoy beautiful beaches on the ocean.
What is the Northeast coastline?
100
This is the natural feature on the East Coast is made of saltwater and allows for shipping between continents.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This area of high elevation is in the Northeast. Many travelers visit this area to hike.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
A map showing the height of mountains and the depth of valleys is an example of what kind of geography?
What is physical geography?
200
Mountains, volcanoes, and valleys are examples of this type of physical feature.
What is landforms?
200
This feature has a high elevation and attracts travelers that want to enjoy nature through hiking and skiing.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
200
This body of water borders the West Coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
This natural feature is in the middle of the United States and is great for farming.
What are the Great Plains?
200
A map showing the height of mountains and the depth of valleys is an example of what kind of geography?
What is physical geography?
300
The study of the people all over the Earth.
What is cultural geography?
300
This feature is on the border of the United States and Canada. It produces energy for the state of New York.
What is the Niagara Falls?
300
These bodies of water contain freshwater and are in the middle of the United States.
What is the Great Lakes?
300
This feature has high elevation and is in the Western part of the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
300
What is the sequence of a river system?
What is "beginning on a mountain (source), flowing between land (river), and flowing into an ocean/lake (mouth)"?
400
The study of the surface of the Earth.
What is physical grography?
400
This is the system that the physical features of the Northeast support when tourists pay money to travel to and see all our beautiful physical features.
What is the economy (helping our region make money)?
400
This natural feature of the USA has land on three sides of it. It is located in the South.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
This physical feature extends from Eastern Canada all the way down to the state of Alabama.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
These are mountains formed by tectonic plates pushing into each other, which pushes the ground up.
What are folded mountains?
500
A map of the languages spoken in New Jersey would be an example of this type of geography.
What is cultural geography?
500
These are the ways the physical features in the Northeast contribute to our culture in the Northeast.
What is contributing the economy (making our region money), giving us activities to do (hiking, skiing, going to the beach), and giving us resources (energy from Niagara Falls, wood from forests)
500
This natural feature in the USA allows shipping and transportation through the middle of the country, from North to South.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
What would be a description of the climate in Florida?
What is "mostly hot and sunny"?
500
Coffee beans need hot climates to grow. What description of a location, based on our lesson yesterday, would be most likely to have coffee bean plants?
What is a place close to the Equator?
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