The _____ divides our world into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
100
Features such as mountains, hills, valleys, and plains that make up Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
100
Trees are an example of a ________resource.
What is renewable?
100
Lines of _____ tell us how far North and South you are from the equator.
What is latitude?
200
The United States is located in two hemispheres; the _____ and the ______.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
200
The place where a river begins.
What is a "source"?
200
Water that falls to Earth's surface as rain, sleet or snow.
What is precipitation?
200
_______ are natural substances found in rocks. _____ is an example of this.
What are minerals- iron, copper, gold, silver.
200
The prime meridian is the main line of ______.
What is longitude?
300
The Atlantic Ocean forms the ________ border of the United States.
What is the Eastern border?
300
This mountain range is located in the West.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
300
We can describe weather in the following 3 ways...
What temperature, wind and precipitation?
300
The water that sinks below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
300
The amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
400
Where a place is in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
400
The place where a river empties into a larger body of water.
What is a "mouth"?
400
Weather is describing a place's temperature, wind and precipitation on any given day whereas, _____ describes a place's weather pattern over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
2 ways in which humans use the natural resource fuel.
What is cooking, heating, gasoline for cars, plastic, paint.
400
The Great _______ is low, bowl shaped land that falls in the Intermountain region.
What is the Great Basin.
500
There are 7 continents on the Earth. The United States is on which continent?
What is North America?
500
In the middle of the United States you will find the ____ plains and the _____ plains.
What are the Central and Great Plains?
500
There are four factors of climate. They are ____, ____, ____ and ______.
What is distance from the equator, elevation, distance from oceans and landforms that are nearby?
500
The protecting of natural resources and using them wisely.
What is conservation?
500
A part of an ocean or sea extending into the land.