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It's Global Baby!
Just State It.
You've Landed!
It's All Wet to Me
What in the World?
100
Physical features such as plains, mountains, plateaus, and valleys.
What are landforms?
100
A period of 1000 years.
What is one thousand years?
100
The group of connected mountains.
What is a mountain range?
100
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
100
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
200
The kind of weather a place has over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The seven large landmasses on our globe.
What are continents?
200
A gradual wearing away of Earth's surface from glaciers, wind, and or rain.
What is erosion?
200
A place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls or rapids.
What is a fall line?
200
The use of canals, ditches, or pipes to move water.
What is irrigation?
300
The line of latitude that is zero degrees, neither north nor south.
What is the equator?
300
An area in which many features are similar.
What is a region?
300
The surroundings in which plants, animals, and people live.
What is the environment?
300
A long inlet that separates offshore islands from the mainland. They often provide harbors.
What is a sound?
300
The two equal halves of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
400
Also known as parallels these lines run east and west.
What are lines of latitude?
400
Where a place is compared to another place.
What is relative location?
400
A land of flat or rolling land with many streams and rivers.
What is a prairie?
400
Together the largest lakes in the United States and in ALL of North America.
What are the Great Lakes? Double points if all five listed: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
400
The relationship between Earth and the sun that causes the seasons.
What is the change in the Earth's tilt toward the sun.
500
The lines that run north and south from the poles and are also called lines of longitude.
What are meridians?
500
States that share a border with another state. Next to each other.
What is contiguous?
500
A low bowl shaped land with higher land all around it.
What is a basin?
500
The largest river system in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River and its tributaries?
500
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interactions, Movement, and Regions.
What are the five themes of geography?