Continents & Oceans
This is the number of continents.
What is 7?
The most accurate map of Earth.
What is a globe?
This is the longest river in the United States and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is a small land mass that is surrounded by water.
What is an island?
This is the line at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
This is the largest continent.
What is Asia?
The study of our natural surroundings and how we interact with them.
What is geography?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the beginning point where a river begins its journey.
What is a source?
Lines on a map that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is longitude?
This ocean is located at the very norther part of the Earth.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Words that describe bodies of water and landforms, like gulf and valley.
What is geographic terms?
This is the ocean west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is a smaller river or stream that flows into a larger body of water.
What is a tributary?
This line is at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
These are the hemispheres that North America is located in.
What are the Northern and Western hemispheres?
Lines on a map that circle Earth from east to west.
What is latitude?
This river runs from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico and means "Large River."
What is the Rio Grande?
This is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides while remaining connected to a larger mainland.
What is a peninsula?
These are the four main points on a compass.
What are cardinal points?
The Atlantic Ocean is located between these 4 continents.
What North American, South America, Africa, and Europe?
Bodies of water and landforms, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What are physical features?
These are the mountains west of the Rocky Mountains and run along the west coast.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
A triangular or fan-shaped landform created by the buildup of sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This is the symbol on the map that shows directions.
What is compass rose?