Landforms
Continents
Oceans
Geography
U.S. Landforms
100

A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.

What is an island?

100

The continent where the Amazon Rainforest is located.

What is South America?

100

The largest ocean on Earth.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

A tool used on maps to show directions like north, south, east, and west.

A compass

100

The longest river in the United States.

What is the Mississippi River?

200

A large, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.

What is a plateau?

200

The smallest continent by land area.

What is Australia?

200

The ocean located to the east of the United States.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

200

This term refers to the height of land above sea level.

What is elevation?

200

This U.S. mountain range stretches from Maine to Georgia.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

300

A deep valley with steep sides, often carved by a river.

What is a canyon?

300

The continent that is home to the Sahara Desert.

What is Africa?

300

The ocean that touches the west coast of Africa.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

300

This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

The equator

300

The large, flat area in the central U.S. known for its farming.

What are the Great Plains?

400

A landform where a river meets an ocean, is often shaped like a triangle.

What is a delta?

400

The only continent that is also a country.

What is Australia?

400

The coldest and most southern ocean.

What is the Artic Ocean?

400

The highest mountain in Africa

Mount Kilimanjaro

400

A famous canyon located in Arizona.

The Grand Canyon

500

These large, slow-moving bodies of ice can carve out valleys as they move.

What are glaciers?

500

Name the 5 continents

Europe, Africa, America, Australiasia, Antartica

500

The ocean found between Africa and Australia.

Indian Ocean

500

How do we call the process through which glaciers move under their own weight? 

compression melting

500

This desert covers parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada.

What is the Mojave Desert?