Major Rivers
This major river flows through the central United States and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This mountain range is located in the eastern United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
These lines run east and west but measure how far north or south a place is.
What are lines of latitude?
This continent is located completely south of the equator.
What is Antarctica?
This river forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This mountain range is located in the western United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime meridian?
These lines run north and south but measure how far east or west a place is.
What are lines of longitude?
Most of this continent is north of the equator and east of the prime meridian.
What is Asia?
This river flows through the southwestern United States and helped form the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
North Carolina is home to part of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The equator is located at this degree of latitude.
What is 0° latitude?
In the coordinate 40°N, 100°W, the letter N means the location is north of this line.
What is the equator?
This continent is north of the equator and west of the prime meridian.
What is North America
This river is located in New York and flows toward New York City.
What is the Hudson River?
These mountains extend through the western United States and into Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The prime meridian is located at this degree of longitude.
What is 0° longitude?
In the coordinate 40°N, 100°W, the letter W means the location is west of this line.
What is the prime meridian?
A location at 20°N, 140°W would be west of this North American country.
What is Mexico?
This river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and forms part of the United States–Canada border.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
These mountains extend through the western United States and into Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
These two large continents are crossed by the equator.
What are South America and Africa?
A location at 20°N, 30°E would be found on this continent.
What is Africa?
A person traveling from the Hudson River to the Ohio River would travel mainly in this direction.
What is southwest?