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Basic Geography
Themes of Geography
Map of North America
North America at a Glance
Regions of Canada and the US
100
Lines we use to give absolute location.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
100
Answers: "Where is it? Why is it there?"
What is location?
100
A group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Hawaii?
100
The countries that make up North America.
What are Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Greenland?
100
This region of the United States has the largest cities and most dense population of the country.
What is the Northeast?
200
Landforms, climate, bodies of water, and plant life are all examples of this.
What are physical characteristics?
200
Answers: "What is it like there?"
Place
200
A territory of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
The Rocky Mountains, Death Valley, and the Great Lakes are examples of this.
What are landforms of North America?
200
This region of North America that is known for growing wheat.
What is the Central Plains?
300
When humans make changes in their behavior to meet their needs based on where they live.
What is adapt?
300
Answers: "What is the relationship between humans and their environment?"
Human-environment interaction
300
The state that is west of Canada, but is apart of the United States.
What is Alaska?
300
This has made North America a leader in many aspects of the world.
What is technology?
300
This region of the United States is known for tobacco and cotton growth.
What is the South?
400
To sell goods or resources to other countries
What is export?
400
Answers: "How and why places are related to one another?"
Movement
400
The tallest point in North America.
What is Mt. Mckinley?
400
Today, most people in the United States and Canada have jobs in what industry?
What is service industry?
400
This region of Canada that most Canadians live.
What is near the U.S. border?
500
to buy goods or resources from other countries
What is import?
500
Answers: "How and why one area is similar to or different than another area?"
Region
500
The oceans that are east (first) and west (second) of the United States.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
500
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) allows tax-free trade between these countries.
What are Canada, Mexico, and the United States?
500
A high rocky plateau in Canada.
What is Canadian Shield?