Geography of MS
This is the relative location of the State of Mississippi.
What is south of The State of Tennessee, east of The Mississippi River, and west of The State of Alabama?
This technology can be used to determine latitude, longitude, and elevation.
What is GPS (Global Positioning Systems (Satellites)?
This soil is best described as: dark, fertile soil with an abundance of limestone and clay.
What is Jackson Prairie?
All the plant life in a particular region.
This is the number of counties in the State of Mississippi.
What are 82?
This was the name and date of the greatest natural disaster in United States history.
What was Hurricane Katrina-August 29, 2005?
This is the region that the State of Mississippi is located in.
What is The Deep South of The United States?
This is what the precise location of an area is called.
What is absolute location?
This soil region has gray soil and is not very fertile.
The animal life in a particular region.
What is fauna?
This is the population of the State of Mississippi according to The Census Bureau in 2023.
What is 2.94 million residents?
This was the greatest flood in United States history.
What was the Great Flood of 1927?
Name the 5 man-made lakes in Mississippi created to control flooding.
What are: Arkabutla Lake, Grenada Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake, and Sardis Lake?
This is what a scientist who studies the origin, history, and composition of Earth's surface is called.
What is a geologist?
This soil region has a flat, yellow-gray, sandy soil that is not fertile.
What is The Coastal Meadows?
The number of days between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in fall.
What is the growing season?
These are the hemispheres Mississippi is located in.
This natural disaster almost killed Elvis Presley.
What was the Tupelo Tornado of April 5, 1936?
What are the: Tombigbee River, Mississippi River, Coldwater River, and Yazoo River?
This is the average elevation of The State of Mississippi.
What is 300 feet?
This soil region was formed by prehistoric dust storms.
What is The Loess Bluffs Region?
A vast, long period of time.
What is an eon?
This is the highest point in the State of Mississippi.
What is Woodall Mountain, at 806 feet?
These were the two deadliest tornadoes in the United States and their locations.
What were Natchez in 1840 and Tupelo in 1936?
This is the absolute location of the State of Mississippi.
What is 30-35 degrees north latitude and 88-91 west longitude?
This is soil that accumulates and forms a ridge on bluffs.
What is loess soil?
This soil region has both silt and loam and was the wealthiest region in the state during the Antebellum Period.
What are The River Lowlands?
This term means, "before the war."
What is antebellum?
This is the total land area in square miles of The State of Mississippi.
What is 48,434?
Something found in nature that is beneficial to humans.
What is natural resources?
These are the four boarding states of Mississippi.
The commercial production of freshwater animals and plant life and a notable example in Mississippi.
What is aquaculture and catfish farming?
Soil that is deposited by running water.
What is alluvial soil?
A low grade of coal.
What is lignite?
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
Mississippi ranks this size among the 50 United States.
What is 32nd in size?