5 Themes of Geography
Geography Vocabulary
Basic
Map Skills
Landforms, Waterways & Climate
Regions of the United States
100
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ tells you where it is!!!
What is location?
100
A very large landmass on Earth is a...
What is a continent?
100
The very 1st thing you should look at when reading a map...
What is the title?
100
Plains and wetlands are examples of this type of landform?
What is lowlands?
100
Your textbook identifies this many regions in the United States...
What is 5?
200
push and pull factors describe this theme of geography...
What is movement?
200
the city that houses the government...
What is the capital
200
The part of the map that tells the readers what the symbols mean...
What is map key?
200
Our nation's longest river....
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This region is home to the Rocky Mountains. It is the least populated of all the regions in the United States.
What is Interior West?
300
Scientists testing the air quality in a populated city would be an example of this theme of Geography...
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
300
Daily Double!!!! Name all 7 continents n the world...
Daily Double!!!
300
The imaginary line that runs E & W and separates the Earth into two hemispheres, North and South...
What is equator?
300
Human-Made waterways are called this....
What are canals?
300
The Great Plains and Great Lakes are located in this region. Many car factories are located here...
What is Midwest?
400
The Southeast and Interior West are two examples of this theme of Geography....
What is Region?
400
a politicl unit or territory within a nation is a ...
What is a state
400
The imaginary line that runs N & S and separates the Earth into 2 hemispheres, E & W....
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
This type of waterway provides an interior route of travel up and down the East Coast so that ships can navigate the waterways more easily.
What is the intracoastal?
400
This region borders the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska and Hawaii
What is the Pacific?
500
What is it like when you get there?
What is place?
500
to have authority over a geographic area; to have the power to make and create laws...
What is sovereignty?
500
The exact location a place is located is its....
What is absolute location?
500
A pattern of weather a place experiences over a long period of time is called...
What is climate?
500
This region is the most densely populated and is mostly urban (city-like).
What is the Northeast?
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