Geography
Someone who studies Earth's landscpes, places and environments
What is a Geographer?
N. America, S. America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and Antarctica
What are the 7 continents?
Rocky Mountains, Appalachians, Sierra Nevadas
What are the major mountain ranges in North America?
Longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Very cold, lots of snow and short summers
What is polar climate?
This country is the second largest in the world but has fewer people than California.
What is Canada?
What is relative location?
This man was a Scottish immigrant who helped convince the government to create Yosemite National Park.
Who is John Muir?
A large area of ocean that extends into the southern part of North America.
What is the Gulf of Mexico (now known as the Gulf of America)?
This climate has less drastic changes from day to night.
What is the coastal climate?
This country is 3 times the size of Texas and borders two oceans.
What is Mexico?
A location found by using latitude and longitude lines.
What is Exact Location?
The Great Basin
What is a major plateau in the West?
Five lakes in the U.S. that are among the largest fresh water lakes.
What are the Great Lakes?
This climate has low rainfall, drastic day and night temperatures in the summer and winter.
What is arid climate?
United States, Canada, Mexico and 7 small countries.
What countries are in the continent of North America?
an area of high plains
What is a plateau?
The Great Basin
What is the major plain/valley in the U.S.?
This is an area where water flows into streams that flow into rivers that flow into larger rivers and eventually flow into the ocean.
What is a watershed?
This areas ground is always frozen with flat, short plants and months without sunshine.
What is the tundra?
Sharing a common border.
What is contiguous?
Overuse of resources and pollution can do this.
What is change the environment?
This tool blocks water from flowing and redirects it to a reservoir.
What is a dam?
This causes the world to have seasons and various climates.
What is the world turns on its axis?
This area has large trees and underbrush and gets plenty of rain.
What are forests?