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What sphere-shaped map gives an accurate picture of Earth because it is shaped just like our planet?
What is a the globe?
What type of landform is flat and covers more than one-third of the world's land area?
What is a plain?
What is the largest river in the United States, flowing 2,340 miles into the Gulf of Mexico?
What is the Mississippi River?
What term describes the pattern of weather in a place measured over a long period of time?
What is climate?
Before reaching the dangerous desert region, Luzena Stanley Wilson's family had to complete a grueling climb over the _________ __________.
What is Rocky Mountains?
Which imaginary line of latitude sits at $0^\circ$ and divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is the equator?
What geographic term refers to the exact place where a river begins?
What is the source?
Name the major western mountain range that stretches about 3,000 miles from Canada to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What do all maps have in common regarding how they are made?
What is made by collecting data?
What discovery in a California stream in 1848 caused thousands of people to move west?
What is gold?
What directions on a compass rose include North, South, East, and West?
What are cardinal directions?
What narrow strip of land connects two larger land areas and has water on both sides?
What is an isthmus?
Name the two rivers that form parts of the border of the United States.
What are the Rio Grande and the St. Lawrence River?
What title is given to a person who designs and creates maps?
What is a cartographer?
On their journey to California, how did rivers pose a danger to pioneers like the Wilsons?
What is the risk of wagons and oxen sinking or getting stuck?
Imaginary lines that run north to south between the poles to measure distance east or west are called lines of what?
What is the prime meridian?
What is the term for a smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river?
What is a tributary?
Which large grassland region in the middle of the U.S. is famous for growing much of the world's wheat?
What are the Great Plains?
How does higher elevation affect temperature in places like mountain ranges?
What makes temperatures colder?
Because home-cooked meals were in short supply while thousands of miners were arriving, Luzena was able to earn money based on the economic principle of _______________.
What is supply and demand?
What line at 0 degree longitude divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is the prime meridian?
What triangular landform is created when soil is deposited at the mouth of a river?
What is a delta?
What low-lying region southeast of the Appalachian Mountains often gets enriched soil from mountain flooding?
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
What three main geographic factors affect where people choose to live?
What are climate, physical features, and vegetation?
Gold-seekers who chose to travel by water instead of land could take a ship around ____________, located at the southern tip of South America.
What is Cape Horn?