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A small stream that runs into a river.
What is a tributary?
100
Almost three-fourths of Earth's surface is covered by this.
What is water?
100
Looking at a U.S. map, two rivers that form parts of the U.S. border.
What are the St. Lawrence and Rio Grande Rivers?
100
Two major landforms people traveling from Missouri to California would have to cross.
What are the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Great Basin (desert)? (Any two of these that you choose are correct.)
100
A smaller body of salt water.
What is a sea?
200
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
200
A tributary flowing into the Mississippi from the east.
What is the Ohio River?
200
What ocean borders the west coast of the United States?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
When part of a sea or an ocean cuts into a mass of land.
What is a gulf?
300
The imaginary lines that run east - west measured in degrees north or south on a map.
What are lines of latitude?
300
These imaginary lines measure how far east or west a place is is on a map or globe.
What are lines of longitude?
300
A land feature of the U.S. southeast of the Appalacian Mountains.
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
300
What ocean borders the eastern part of the U.S.?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
Like a gulf, but usually smaller.
What is a bay?
400
Land that juts out and is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a penninsula?
400
The most important way that rivers and lakes helped the U.S. to become a wealthy nation.
What is they provided routes for ships and power for industry?
400
This geographic feature forms at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
What is the Mississippi delta?
400
What country borders the northern part of the U.S.?
What is Canada?
400
Lands that are mostly flat.
What is a plain?
500
The four cardinal directions on a compass.
What is N, S, E, W.
500
Which country is larger in land than the U.S.? A) Mexico, B) Japan, C) Canada, D) Brazil
What is Canada?
500
The geographic landform that is in the middle portion of the U.S.
What is the Great Plains?
500
What country borders the southern part of the U.S.
What is Mexico?
500
Low area of land between ranges of mountains or hills.
What is a valley?