Grade 4 Geography

US Landmarks

100

This is the ______________ and it is located in _______

What is the USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor 

Honolulu, Hawaii?

200

This location is over 1 million years old and located in Arizona

What is the Grand Canyon?

300

This landmark connects both Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. 

What is the Brooklyn Bridge?

400

This is a prison turned  museum. It is the filming location to many movies such as "The Rock" and is located in __________. 

What is Alcatraz Island & San Francisco, CA? 

500

The largest Maritime Museum in the US 

What is Mystic Seaport? 

The Earth & Maps

100

This volcano exploded in 1980 in Washington spreading ash for miles 

What is Mount Saint Helens?  

200

These "shelved" lansdcapes helped farmers grow crops 

What are terraced landscapes?

300

This volcano is located in our state and has been continuously erupting since 1983

What is Kilauea? 

400

This type of map was created in the 1500's to help sailors

What is a Mercator projection?

500

All maps are 100% accurate? True or false? 

False. Maps are projections and show different views of the world

Time Zones, Latitude & Longitude

100

This line runs from North to South on the globe

What is latitude?

200

This invisible line separates the northern and southern hemispheres 

What is the equator?

300

This line runs from East to West on the globe

What is longitude?

400

This is the number of time zones in the world 

What is 24?

500

This runs through this city and country and is 0 degrees longitude

The Prime Meridian & Greenwich, England

Rivers & Adaption

100

The river that starts in New Mexico & boarders Texas 

What is the Rio Grande River?

200

This river is named after a reptile 

What is Snake River? 

300

Rivers carry this downstream 

What is sediment?

400

This crooked street is located in San Francisco, CA and was made to help the city adapt to its steep geography

What is Lombard St.?

500

This river in the US has the longest name 

What is the Mississippi River? 

Other Cool Stuff

100

Food shortage is this type of migration factor 

What is a push factor?

200

This is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake 

What is the Richter scale? 

300

This natural wonder of the world is located near this island that is also a continent 

What is the Great Barrier Reef & Austrlia?

400

This is the _____ located in ______

What is the Colosseum and Rome, Italy? 

500

These are 2 wonders of the world- 1 man made and 1 natural 

What is Christ the Redeemer and the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro?