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The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them.
What is geography?
The state of Florida is an example of this geographical feature while separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a peninsula?
The tallest mountain in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, can be found at this set of coordinates (p. 91).
What is 4S, 37E?
The mountain range that stretches across California.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
A tool, often brought on backpacking trips, used to determine cardinal directions.
What is compass?
Halves of a sphere divided by an imaginary line.
What is a hemisphere?
The beginning of a river, such as Lake Itasca for the Mississippi River.
What is a mouth?
Roblox was created in San Mateo near these three cities located at (37 N, 122 W on p. 50).
What is San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose?
The river that feeds into Lake Ontario.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
The United States Civil War was fought in these two hemispheres.
What are the northern and western hemispheres?
The line of latitude at 0 degrees.
What is the Equator?
Massachusetts is known for its seafood, which makes sense because of this hook-like, geographical feature that appears "tossed" out into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a cape?
The ancient ruins of Machu Picchu can be found near this city, at (13 S, 72 W) on p. 78.
What is Cuzco?
Three of the states that make up the Great Plains.
What are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas?
European explorers were traveling this cardinal direction when traveling to the New World (America).
What is west?
A round sphere used to study Earth.
What is a globe?
Back in the 1600's, European settlers found their way to the coast of Virginia and eventually moved up the Chesapeake, which is an example of this geographical feature.
What is a bay?
The Mona Lisa is a painting that lives at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France located at these coordinates (p. 84).
What is 48 N, 2 E?
What are the Missouri and Ohio Rivers?
The 13 colonies were under England’s (United Kingdom) rule. England can be found in these three hemispheres.
What are the northern, western and eastern hemispheres?
The meridian line at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Primer Meridian?
What is a plain?
This city, located at (46 N, 9 E), will host the winter Olympics this coming February.
What is Milan, Italy?
What is Arkansas?
Madagascar and New Zealand are both large islands, but this one is further south.
What is New Zealand?