Geography

Continents

100

England in located on this continent 

What is Europe 

200

What are the seven continents?

What is: • North A merica • South America • Africa • Asia • Australia • Antarctica • Europe ?

300

What continent do we live in?

What is North America?

400

If I started in ________ and went east, I would land in southern Africa

What is South America?

500

The largest continent 

What is Asia?

Oceans and Rivers

100

Largest Lake in NC

Lake Superior 

200

The _____________ forms part of the northeastern border with Canada and connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the St. Lawrence river

300

What are the five oceans?

What is: • Atlantic Ocean • Pacific Ocean • Arctic Ocean • Indian Ocean • Southern Ocean ?

400

2nd largest river in U.S. that starts in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi River

500

It forms the border with Mexico.

What is the Rio Grande?

Geographical Regions

100

This geographical Region located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

What is the Coastal Plains.

200

Broad lowlands providing many excellent harbors is which geographical region?

What are the Great Plains?

300

What region is located west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains?

What is Interior Lowlands?

400

Contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers

What is Rocky Mountains?

500

Mountain ranges that run parallel to the Pacific coast of North America

Coastal range

Geographic Features

100

A large body of fresh water surrounded by land. 

lake

200

flat area of land that is higher than the land around it

plateau

300

Land surrounded by water on 3 sides

Peninsula 

400

flat grassland 

plain

500

A piece of land surrounded by water.

What is an island?

Miscellanous

100

Imaginary line that divided earth into northern and southern hemispheres

Equator 

200

Inland port cities grew in the Midwest along the this place.

What was built around the Great Lakes

300

A _____ is a part of an ocean that is partially enclosed by land.

What is a gulf

400

Imaginary line that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres

Prime Meridian 

500

It is partially enclosed by land, but smaller than a gulf and not necessarily part of the ocean.

What is a bay?