Geography Skills - Part 1
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Geography is...
Geography is the study of the Earth
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Businesses have to send products all over the country and world on ships. What is the name of the Seaway that ships travel to get to the Atlantic Ocean?
St. Lawrence Seaway
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On a map, you will see a compass rose. North, South, East, and West are called...
Cardinal Directions
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What are the small drawing, line, or color that stands for something on a map called?
Symbols
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Elevation maps show you...
How high the land is.
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What are the five themes of Geography?
The five themes of Geography are location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement, and region.
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On this page, you will see a globe. What two oceans are labelled on the globe?
Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean
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On a map, you will see a compass rose. Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest are called...
Intermediate Directions
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What kind of maps shows the names of the cities, states as well as the boundaries?
Political Map
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On the map of Pennsylvania Elevation, what color is for the highest elevation?
Brown
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The five Great Lakes are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan,....
Lake Ontario and Lake Superior.
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On this page, you will see a globe. What two countries are labelled on the globe?
North America and South America
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On the map of the Southwest, Land Use, what area is identified with the YELLOW color?
Grazing
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On the map of the The Midwest, Political, what is the capital city of Wisconsin?
Madison
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Using the map of Atlanta, Georgaia, name one thing that is located in the location of C2.
State Capital, Turner Field, Zoo Atlanta
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How many islands do the Great Lakes have around?
The Great Lakes have around 35,000 islands.
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What are the names of the TWO imaginary lines that divide the Earth into halves?
Equator and Prime Meridian
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On the map of the Southwest, Land Use, name one symbol that you see in Texas (TX).
Natural Gas, Oil, Cotton, Coal, Cattle, Sheep
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What kind of maps shows the landforms and bodies of water of a given area?
Physical Map
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On the globe, what two continents do the Prime Meridian run across?
Europe and Africa
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Canals are ____ _____ that are dug across land.
Man-made waterways
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There are FOUR Hemispheres on Earth. They are the Western, Eastern...
Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
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On the map of the Hurricane Katrina's Path, where was the storm at its strongest?
Gulf of Mexico
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On the map of the Northeast, Physical, what mountain is 5,344 feet tall called?
Mount Marcy
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Using the map of the Explorers in the Americas, which explorer travelled to the Bahamas and Cuba?
Christopher Columbus