Geography Department and People
European explorer who thought he landed in India in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The abbreviation is GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
What is a Compass?
This state was part of Massachusetts before separating in 1820.
What is Maine?
The highest place on Earth.
Famous Italian explorer during the Age of Exploration whose name was used to name continents, countries, and cities.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The process of wearing away soil and rock by wind, water, or ice.
What is Erosion?
A 2D depiction of geographic features created by a cartographer.
What is a Map?
This state has the lowest population density of just 1.3 people per square mile.
What is Alaska?
The lowest point on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This doctor is the faculty advisor for Geography Club.
Who is Dr. Dorothy Sack?
The abbreviation is GIS.
What is Geographic Information System?
A book of maps or charts.
What is an Atlas?
5 miles separates 100 inches of rain a year from 8 inches of rain per per year. You can ski/snowboard and snorkel in the ocean on the same day due to its vertical zonation.
What is Hawaii?
The country with the highest number of volcanoes.
What is the United States of America?
This professor serves as the Chair of the Geography Department. Their research is on gender and rural livelihoods and landscape change in East Africa.
Who is Dr. E. Edna Wangui?
The line at which longitude is 0o.
What is the Prime Meridian?
An instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation.
What is a Sextant?
State with the most invasive animal species?
What is Florida?
The world's longest river at over 4,000 miles long.
What is the Nile?
Considered the “Father of Geography” because he was the first to coin the term "geography," develop the first map of the world, and calculate the circumference of the Earth using scientific methods.
Who is Eratosthenes?
The scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.
What is Geomorphology?
The scanning of the Earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.
What is Remote Sensing?
Where Dr. Dorothy Sack conducts much of her research.
What is Utah?
The country with the most islands.
What is Sweden?
BONUS: How many? Each group will wager, the group with the closest number will get the points.