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Geography
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Geographic Terms
100
What is the most accurate map of the Earth
What is a globe
100
What is the line of latitude at 0 degrees called?
What is the Equator?
100
What is the ocean to the west coast of the US?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The mountain range in the eastern part of the US.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
100
The largest body of salt water other than an ocean.
What is a sea?
200
The lines on a map that circle Earth from east to west.
What are lines of lattitude?
200
The line of longitude at 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
The largest mountain range in the US.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200
A tributary for the Mississippi River on the east side of the US.
What is the Ohio River?
200
A piece of land surrounded on all sides by water.
What is an island?
300
Lines on a map that run from the Nnorth Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
300
The symbol on the map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
300
The ocean on the east coast of the US.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
The flat area of land in the middle of the US that is level or nearly level.
What is Great Plains?
300
Where a river begins.
What is a source?
400
Bodies of water and landforms such as the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.
What are physical features?
400
The intermediate points on a compass rose.
What Northwest, Southwest, Northeast and Southeast.
400
The largest river in the US.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The mountain range in California on the west coast.
What is the Sierra Nevada mountains?
400
Where a river ends and empties into a larger body of water.
What is the mouth?
500
Words that describe bodies of water and land forms, like gulf and valley.
What are geographic terms?
500
The 4 main points on a compass rose.
What are North, South, East and West?
500
The river that border Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
500
The river on the east coast that flows into the Great Lakes.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
500
The name given to a low area of land between ranges of mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
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