What Is Geography?
This prefix means "earth," and we use it in the word geography.
What is "geo"?
What is latitude?
This is what we call the study of or practice of drawing maps.
What is cartography?
Name the the three major countries that make up "North America"
What is Canada, the United States, and Mexico?
This country is the largest one in South America and has borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
What is Brazil?
This term refers to a person who studies how the physical Earth interacts with the people that live on it.
What is a geographer?
This concept refers to the aspect of physical geography that answers "What's it like there?" and includes physical characteristics such as land forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life.
What is place?
Name one of the five types of maps we learned about in the article about types of maps.
What are:
Political Maps
Physical Maps
Topographic Maps
Weather Maps
or
Geological Maps
These are the two major oceans that touch both coasts along "North America."
What is the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean?
True or False: The Amazon rainforest is a tropical biome that has as many as 100 different tree species on a single acre, including the rubber tree, silk cotton tree, and Brazil nut tree.
True
This is what we use to describe the exact spot something can be found on Earth.
What is absolute location?
This is what we call an area that has unifying characteristics.
What is a region?
All maps contain this, which refers to any representation that is twisted or misrepresented.
What is distortion?
Name the five physical regions of North America.
*Must have at least 3/5 right to get credit.
What is the Western region, the Great Plains, the Canadian Shield, the Eastern region, and the Caribbean.
*Must have at least 3/5 right to get credit.
Name one of the three major river basins in South America.
What is:
the Amazon
the Orinoco
or the Paraguay/Paraná.
This is how we measure longitude and latitude.
What are degrees (°) and minutes (′)?
This is a naturally occurring barrier between two areas.
What is a boundary?
Farmers rely on this type of map to plan irrigation and harvesting by anticipating weather changes.
What is a weather map?
This civilization, that existed from 2000 BC – 1697 AD, had advanced math, calendars, and almanacs that recorded celestial events such as eclipses and seasonal changes.
Who are the Mayans?
This empire was established in 1438 in the Andean city of Cuzco, Peru. In order to communicate across the large empire they developed a network of roads to connect places. They built forts, inns, food storage facilities, and signal towers along this impressive “foot highway.”
Who are the Incans? / What is the Incan Empire?
This is a real or artificial line that separates geographic areas.
What is a border?
True or False: Places can change over time.
True.
These types of maps are distinguished by their use of contour lines, which are essential for portraying the Earth’s three-dimensional landscape on a two-dimensional medium.
What are topographic maps?
The economies of a lot of Caribbean countries are largely built on this industry.
Bonus if you can name the specific type within the industry.
What is tourism?
Bonus: Ecotourism.
This term refers to people of mixed indigenous and European ancestry. Today, this group makes up large parts of the populations of many South American countries, such as Paraguay (95 percent), Ecuador (65 percent), and Colombia (58 percent).
Who are mestizos?