Maps
Physical Features of USA
Water and Landforms
Vocabulary
100

The study of the physical world and how we interact with it is called:

a. Geometry

b. Geography

c. Geoworldology

b. Geography

100

The major mountain ranges in the United States are called:

a. Great Mountain Range and The Gulf Coast Mountain Range

b. Appalachian Mountains and Rocky Mountains

c. Appalachian Mountains and Sierra Nevada Mountains

b. Appalachian Mountains and Rocky Mountains

100

Name two of the Great Lakes 

a. Lake Michigan, Lake Superior

b. Lake Washington, Lake Mississippi

c. Lake Sammamish, Lake Union

a. Lake Michigan, Lake Superior

100

What is Climate

a. Aspects of weather that can be measured over a long period of time such as temperature, rainfall and wind.

b. Aspects of weather that can be measured over a short period of time such as mountains, valleys and plains

a

200

The latitude line that runs at 0 degrees is called:

a. Prime Meridian

b. Tropic of Cancer

c. Equator

c. Equator

200

True or False:

The areas that get the hottest in the United States are located in the south.

True

200

Physical Features of Earth include:

a. Cities and landforms

b. Water and Landforms

c. Animals and population

b

300

On a globe or map, the latitude lines run:

a. horizontal   ------

b. vertical  I

a. horizontal

300
True or False:


Big trees called the Redwoods can be found in Washington State.

False

They are found in California

400

A map that shows the states and capitols is called a :

a. Political map

b. State map

c. Regional map

a. political map