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100

33°N, 90° W is an example of this.

What is absolute location?

100

There are ______ soil regions in Mississippi. 

What are 12?

100

This is the name of the highest point in Mississippi.

What is Woodall Mountain / What is Mount Woodall?

100

This major river forms Mississippi's western border with Arkansas and Northern Louisiana.

What is the Mississippi River?

100

These are the four states that border Mississippi.

What are Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana?

200

This technology can be used to determine latitude and longitude. 

What is GPS?

200

This natural disaster occurred in August of 2005 and destroyed much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

What is Hurricane Katrina?

200

This war ended the Antebellum period in Mississippi.

What is the Civil War?

200

This is the name of all water found above ground.

What is surface water?

200

This is the name of all water found underground.

What is groundwater? 

300

This hurricane struck Mississippi on August 17, 1969.

What is Hurricane Camille?

300

This body of water defines Mississippi's southern border.

What is the Gulf of Mexico?

300

This is the official term for Water-farming.

What is aquaculture?

300

Armadillos, raccoons, and white-tailed deer are all examples of this scientific term for animals. 

What is fauna?

300

Pine trees, Magnolia trees, and ferns are examples of this scientific term for plants.

What is flora?

400

Scientists who study the origin, history, and composition of Earth’s crust.

What are geologists?

400

Dark, funnel-shaped clouds with swirling winds that can measure over 200 mph.

What are tornadoes? 

400

Small rivers, or streams, that flow into a larger river.

What are tributaries? 

400

This is the official term for the six large manmade lakes found in Mississippi used to store and manage water resources?

What is a reservoir?

400

Gemstones, gravel, sand, and clay are all examples of what type of resource?

What are mineral resources?

500

A flat 2D representation of the Earth’s surface.

What is a map?

500

The area of land that drains into the tributaries and eventually into the larger rivers.

What is a drainage basin?

500

This natural disaster occurred on April 21, 1927

What is the Great Flood of 1927?

500

Someone who farms another man's land for a share of the crop known as?

What is a Sharecropper?

500

This is the Native American word for corn.

What is maize?