Definitions
The study of a place's land, water, plants, animals, and people.
What is geography?
What is a continent?
The capital of Tennessee
What is Nashville?
Natural features that make up the earth's surface.
What are landforms?
When a state shares a boundary with another state (or is touching it).
What does it mean for a state to "border" another state?
These three countries make up the continent of North America.
What are the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
What is the Southeast?
The weather of a place year after year.
What is climate?
This many states border Tennessee.
What is "eight?"
The continent, country, state, and city we are in (in order)
What are North America, the USA, Tennessee, and Nashville?
What are water, soil (or minerals or timber)?
Things found in nature that are useful to people.
What are natural resources?
This state is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, and Mexico.
What is California?
Santa Fe is the capital of this state.
What is New Mexico?
One of Tennessee's land regions is this. (pg. 13)
What is/are the (Great Smoky Mountains/Great Valley/Cumberland Plateau/Highland Rim/Central Basin/West Tennessee Plain)?
An area of a country, state, or the word, with definable characteristics
What is a region?
This is a piece of land that extends, or juts out, and is surrounded by water on most sides.
What is a peninsula?
Mali, Niger, and Chad are countries on this continent.
What is Africa?
Name two other cities in Tennessee besides Nashville (and besides Antioch)
What are Memphis and Knoxville (or any two on the map)?