What is Geography?
What is the study of the Earth and everything on it?
What is Geography?
What feature on a map tells you what the map shows?
What is the Title?
What are large landmasses surrounded by water called?
What are Continents
How many states does the United States have?
What are 50
Who are the Indigenous Peoples?
What are the first people who lived in a place before other groups arrived?
How does geography help us understand history?
It helps us see where events happened, understand why events happened, and how people lived in certain places.
What does a Key or Legend on a map explain?
It tells you what the symbols, colors, or shapes on the map mean
How many continents are there on Earth?
What are 7
What is a Region?
What is an area of the Earth's surface that shares similar characteristics
What is one way Indigenous Peoples used their environment?
They used resources to meet their needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the impact of geography on your daily life?
It affects where we live, what resources are available, and how we interact with the environment.
How is distance represented on a map?
What is the Scale?
What are the five oceans on Earth?
What are the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans?
Name one geographic feature important to U.S. history.
What is the Appalachian Mountains or Rocky Mountains?
Name the tribe from the Southeast region of North America.
What is the Cherokee?
What are the four main directions shown on a Compass Rose?
What are North, East, South, and West?
What part of a map shows which direction is North?
What is the Compass Rose?
Why is the Pacific Ocean significant?
It is the largest ocean on Earth.
What does the term "Great Plains" refer to?
What is a large area of flat land in the central United States?
What type of homes did the Lakota live in?
What are tipis?
Why might North be at the top of a map if there is no Compass Rose?
Because it is conventionally assumed that North is at the top of maps.
Why might North be at the top of a map if there is no Compass Rose?
Answer: Because it is conventionally assumed that North is at the top of maps.
What is a Hemisphere?
What is half of a sphere
Which region of the U.S. is known for its deserts?
What is the Southwest?
How did geography affect the lifestyles of Indigenous Peoples?
It influenced how they got food, made clothing, and built shelters.