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Good for growing lots of crops or plants
What is fertile
100
Tributaries of the Mississippi river.
What are the Missouri and Ohio river?
100
These are masses of land
What are landforms
100
The imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the equator?
100
The four main points on a compass
What are cardinal points
200
Landforms, climate, weather, plants and animals
What are physical characteristics
200
The low area between ranges of mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
200
The largest mountian range in the U.S.
What is the Rocky Mountians?
200
An imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half between the Western Hempisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
The most accurate map
What is a globe
300
These maps show specific information
What are thematic maps
300
The largest continent.
What is Asia?
300
The study of earth, including its people, resources, climate and physical features
What is geography
300
The total number of people living in a place.
What is population?
300
Location determined by longitude.
What is absolute location?
400
These maps show the Earth's landforms and bodies of water
What are physical maps
400
The second largest mountian ranghe in the U.S.
What is the Appalachian Mountians.
400
Longitude and latitude identify this.
What is location?
400
These are advantages of living on a river
What are transportation, food and power
400
A term that is used to describe bodies of water, such as bays, and landforms, such as an island.
What is a geographic term?
500
The study of Earth, including its people, resources, climate, and physical features.
What is geography?
500
A small stream that runs into a river.
What is a tributary?
500
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
These are disadvantages of living by a river
What are disease, bad smells, trash, flooding
500
Location determined by the relationship of one place to another.
What is relative location?