CATEGORY 1
What were the three rivers in the Garden of Eden?
Tigris, Gihon, Euphrates
Rather than indicating points on a map by referring to feet, mapmakers use
degrees
Which country won the Seven Years' War?
Britain
What enabled large ships to travel the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Great Lakes?
locks
What is the central portion of New York where thin lakes extend from the north to the south?
Finger Lakes
In the book, how are the four rivers that flow from the Garden of Eden described?
highways
What can be used to find the exact geographic location of a ship?
geographic grids
Nunavut is a territory set aside for
Inuit
What is an important industry in the Canadian Shield?
mining
Which Pennsylvania city is the home of the world's largest chocolate factory?
Hershey
The basic tool of geography is a
map
Any method used to show the earth's round surface on a flat map is called a
map projection
A high-latitude evergreen forest is a(n)
taiga
What mountain ranges lie in the New England uplands?
Berkshire Hills
Which Pennsylvania city became famous because of its steel mills?
Pittsburgh
Detailed land features- such as mountains, hills, elevations, rivers, and swamps- are referred to as
topography
The main problem with any flat map is
distortion
The area of hard rock and poor soil that surrounds the Hudson Bay is
the Canadian Shield
Which colony was founded by Roger Williams?
Rhode Island
The line of barrier islands along the coast of North Carolina is the
Outer Banks
The art of mapmaking is called
cartography
A typical globe is covered by twelve strips of paper called
gores
An archipelago is a
group of islands
A sprawling urban area made up of many different cities is a
megalopolis
The areas of swamps and slow-moving streams and rivers in Louisiana are
bayous