This is the study of humans, their environments, and their resources.
What is geography?
100
This continent is largest in size as well as population.
What is Asia?
100
The salt flats near Wendover are in this type of climate.
What is a desert?
100
This is the oldest geologic era we know of.
What is the Precambrian Era?
100
Where something is.
What is location?
200
Earthquakes tend to occur around these areas because of weaknesses in the Earth's surface.
What are faultlines?
200
This ocean is named after a country.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
This lake is a remnant of Utah's Ice Age lake. Hint: There are three possible answers.
What is (Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake)?
200
Molten rock from inside volcanoes.
What is lava?
200
How humans deal with, adapt to, and change the natural world.
What is interaction?
300
These men study the rock formations and landforms of the physical Earth.
What are geologists?
300
Daily Double! This is worth 600 points. This ocean takes it's name from a city that supposedly sank beneath it's waves.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
Daily Double! This question is worth 600 points. Utah has three major landform regions, namely plateaus, mountains, and these.
What is basins?
300
This lake occupies a low point in Utah and has no outlet to the sea. As a result, the minerals that flow into this lake cause the water to become saltier over time.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
300
Cars, airplanes, and boats are all part of this theme.
What is movement?
400
Loose sand, gravel, and rocks in river beds, lakes, and oceans.
What is sediment?
400
This continent is bisected by both the Equator and the Prime Meridian.
What is Africa?
400
Because of this effect, a lot of rain falls in California's mountains, but not as much rain falls in Nevada or Utah.
What is the rain shadow effect?
400
The large Ice Age lake that covered most of Utah.
What is Lake Bonneville?
400
This theme is based around unifying characteristics. They could physical (like an entire mountain range), or they could be human-related (like a Hispanic neighborhood).
What is a region?
500
Consisting of living or once-living material.
What is organic?
500
This is the driest continent. Hint: Think carefully. Your first guess is probably wrong.
What is Antarctica?
500
This landform region covers the northeast corner of Utah
What are the Rocky Mountains?
500
This man came to Utah to look for mammal fossils, but ended up looking for dinosaur fossils for Andrew Carnegie.
Who is Earl Douglass?
500
Australia, Utah, and the Bonneville Salt Flats are all examples of this.