Basics of Geography
This is the weather for an area year round.
What is climate?
This mountain range runs along the western edge of North America.
What are the Rockies?
This river is the largest in South America and a key rainforest waterway.
What is the Amazon River?
Europe is often called a “____ of ____” which is this landform.
What is a peninsula?
This city is the capital of Russia.
What is Moscow?
This map shows the physical features of an area such as hills and valleys.
What is a physical/topographic map?
The longest river in the continental U.S., flowing from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This mountain chain runs along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
This city is the capital of the United Kingdom.
What is London?
This was the site of a major nuclear reactor meltdown in Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl?
This is the exact coordinates or an address.
What is absolute location?)
This U.S. state has the biggest population.
What is California?
This language is spoken widely in Brazil and contrasts with Spanish-speaking neighbors.
What is Portuguese?
This river flows from Germany to the North Sea and is vital for transport in Europe.
What is the Rhine?
This region that is mostly in Eastern Russia is known for its extremely cold temperatures.
What is Siberia?
A tool that shows distance on a map, often as a ratio or bar.
What is a map scale?
This US region is known for being America’s heartland and as an agricultural center.
What is the Midwest?
The process by which the Amazon Forest loses more and more trees.
What is deforestation?
This German city was split in half between the Allied and Soviets after World War II.
What is Berlin?
This is the name of the political and economic system of the Soviet Union.
What is communism?
This is an average of people spread out per unit of area.
What is population density?
This city is Canada’s largest by population and a major multicultural area?
What is Toronto?
Ancient civilization known for pyramids and writing systems in present-day Mexico.
What is the Maya?
This European region is known for past ethnic tensions and conflicts.
What are the Balkans?
Since 2014, there has been conflict between these two countries.
What are Russia and Ukraine?