National Parks
Natural Disasters
Oceans
Rainforests and Deforestation
Freshwater Resources
The Fifty Nifty
The Bay State
Geographic Terms
100
You can find this famous geyser in Yellowstone Park.
What is Old Faithful?
100
The Richter Scale is used to measure the magnitude of this type of natural disaster.
What are Earthquakes?
100
This ocean is not crossed by the Equator.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
100
In 2019, this rainforest lost a piece of land the size of a football field every 6 seconds.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
100
Governmental negligence in this majority-Black Midwestern city caused up to 14,000 children to be poisoned and permanently affected by lead in the drinking water.
What is Flint, Michigan?
100
Water Protectors were protesting the Keystone Pipeline in this state.
What is North Dakota?
100
This Massachusetts town is the location of Gillette Stadium.
What is Foxborough?
100
A symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually created on a flat surface.
What is a map?
200
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is part of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachians? 
200
The natural disaster that produces the highest speed winds is called this.
What is a Tornado?
200
At nearly seven miles deep, the Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. It is located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean? 
200
This continent is the only continent to not have any rainforests.
What is Antarctica? 
200
By the summer of 2022, this lake, created in the 1930s by the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, was down to less than 30 percent of its capacity.
What is Lake Mead?
200
This state borders all of the following states: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
What is Colorado?
200
This is the second most populous city in Massachusetts.
What is Worcester?
200
Chemicals or particles in the air that can harm the health of humans, animals and plants.
What is air pollution?
300
This is the hottest, driest, and lowest (below sea level) national park.
What is Death Valley National Park?
300
The Ring of Fire, the most seismically and volcanically active zone on Earth, is located around this ocean.
What is The Pacific Ocean?
300
This ocean is the third largest and includes the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
This is the only U.S. National Forest located in both Maine and New Hampshire.
What is White Mountain National Forest?
300
About 75 percent of the Earth's freshwater is stored here.
What are glaciers?
300
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada is located in this desert.
What is the Mojave Desert?
300
The city of Boston is located in this Massachusetts county.
What is Suffolk County?
300
This scientific theory asserts that the Earth’s surface is split into a number of large pieces that shift and move slowly over time.
What are plate tectonics? 
400
This national park has the highest mountain peak in North America.
What is Denali National Park? 
400
In September 2020, Hurricane Ida caused the flooding of the subway system of this major U.S. city.
What is New York City?
400
Sometimes referred to as the "rainforests of the sea," this is the name for the type of marine ecosystem that takes up less than 0.1% of the world's ocean area but provides a home for more than 25% of marine species.
What are coral reefs? 
400
Although not the largest, this continent boasts of having the largest forest cover coming in at around 1,015 million hectares.
What is Europe?
400
Freshwater (as opposed to salt water) comprises approximately this percentage of the Earth's total amount of water.
What is less than 5 percent?
400
These are the names of the five Great Lakes.
What are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario?
400
This is the name of the mountainous area of Massachusetts where the towns of Pittsfield, Lee, and Lennox can be found.
What are the Berkshires? 
400
Formed from the remains of ancient animals and plants; coal, oil and natural gas are examples of these.
What are fossil fuels?
500
This was the first National Park, signed into law by President Grant in 1872.
What is Yellowstone?
500
This is the term used for a mature tropical cyclone that forms between 180° and 100° East longitude in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is a typhoon?
500
Cape Horn in Tierra del Fuego is the meeting place of these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? 
500
Forests that experience all four seasons and are located at higher latitudes are this type of forest.
What are temperate forests?
500
The largest aquifer in The United States is called this.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
500
This is the least populated state.
What is Wyoming?
500
This Massachusetts city is nicknamed “The City of Presidents.”
What is Quincy? 
500
This second layer of Earth’s atmosphere consists of a gas that absorbs bits of radiation and serves as a shield for life on Earth. (Hint: It helps trap ultraviolet light)
What is the Ozone Layer?
600
This tree (name, please) in Sequoia National Park is thought to be the largest in the world.
What is the General Sherman Tree?
600
The second most destructive forest fire in recorded history destroyed 42 million acres of woodlands in 2019 - 2020 in this country.
What is Australia?
600
Around 70% of the Earth’s supply of oxygen is a waste product created by this ocean-dwelling creature.
What are plankton?
600
First celebrated in 1872 in Nebraska, this annual holiday celebrated in all 50 states encourages people to plant trees.
What is Arbor Day?
600
According to the United Nations, approximately this percentage of the world's population lacks safe drinking water.
What is 26 percent?
600
This state's nickname is "The Land of 10,000 Lakes."
What is Minnesota?
600
This U.S. state was part of Massachusetts until it became its own state in 1820.
What is Maine?
600
The act in which the Earth is worn away, often by water, wind or ice.
What is erosion? 
700
This national park includes the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River.
What is Everglades National Park?
700
This type of natural disaster occurred in April of 2010 in Iceland and caused air travel in many European countries to be shut down for over a week!
What is a volcanic eruption?
700
A giant patch of seaweed known as the Sargasso Sea is found in this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
700
This type of forest plays a significant role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They are home to evergreen species and are mostly found across Siberia, Scandinavia, Alaska and Canada.
What is a Boreal Forest or Taiga?
700
This city in the Southwestern United States recently cut off neighboring housing developments from access to the city’s water as a result of a major drought. (Name the city and/or state.)
What is Scottsdale, AZ?
700
These seven Western states depend on access to water from the Colorado River. Please name all seven.
What are Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming?
700
Hyannis, Mashpee, Sagamore, Scituate, and Cuttyhunk are all places in Massachusetts whose names come from this language.
What is Wampanoag?
700
This naturally occurring ridge shows how precipitation flows on land. It separates a continent’s river systems.
What is the Continental Divide?
