The largest mountain ranges in the United States and their cardinal direction that can be seen from a space shuttle.
What is the Rocky Mountains in the west and the Appalachian Mountains in the east?
100
_________ covers three-fourths of Earth's surface
What is water
100
A physical feature on Earth's surface such as a mountain or a plain.
What is a lanform
100
In 1848, a man named James Marshall had found gold in a California stream. Thousands of people rushed to California, hoping to get rich by mining gold. The event was....
What is the Gold Rush?
100
Lines on a map/globe that run west to east but show how far north or south we are
What lines of latitude?
200
The most important way that rivers and lakes helped the United States become a wealthy country,
They provided routes for ships and power for industry?
200
The definition of geography
What is the study of our physical surroundings?
200
The definition of a mountain range.
What is a major landform that rises above the surrounding land and forms a row of connected mountains?
200
Rivers brought safety to the Wilsons on their Journey.
Because rivers provided the Wilsons and their animals with water to drink after crossing the desert. (wordings may vary)
200
Lines on a map/globe that run North and South but show how far east or west a location is.
What are lines of longitude?
300
The Countries that are larger than the United States
What is Canada and Russia?
300
The name of all the cardinal directions on a compass rose
What is North, South, East, West?
300
1.A piece of land that juts out into the water and is usually smaller or narrower than a peninsula.
2. A smaller stream that runs into a river and an example in the United States.
What is a 1.cape?
2. tributary and Ohio river
300
Rivers brought these dangers to the Wilsons on their journey.
the wagons sometimes become stuck during river crossings and/or sunk.
300
A line that is at location 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
400
A tributary flowing into the Mississippi river from the east
What is the Ohio River?
400
This landform is formed at the mouth of a river when soil is deposited.
What is a delta?
400
The definition of 1. plain
2.Valley
What is
1. what are land masses that are mostly flat, with few trees?
2. what is the low area between ranges?
400
Two of the major landforms the Wilsons had to cross on their trip from Missouri to the California gold rush.
What is Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Great Basin? (Any two)
400
A line that is at the location 0 degree longitude
What is the prime meridian?
500
The two rivers that form parts of the United States border.
What are the St. Lawrence river and the Rio Grande river?
500
The definition of an Isthmus
What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas?
500
1. Part of a sea or ocean that cuts into a mass of land and an example of one in the United States.
2. A smaller body of salt water
3. similar to a gulf, but is usually smaller
4.a body of water surrounded by land
What is 1.gulf; Gulf of Mexico
2.sea
3.bay
4.lake
500
Because of the rush for gold, California grew quickly in population and became a state in _______.
What is 1850
500
The name of ALL the hemispheres and the way they are divided.
What is the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere divided by the equator?
What is the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere divided by the prime meridian?