Where is Mississippi?
Fair Weather
Fertile Soil
Natural Resources
Misc
100

What state does Mississippi share its Eastern border with? 

What is Alabama?

100

What hurricane hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005? 

What is Hurricane Katrina?

100

How many soil regions can be found in Mississippi?

What are 12 soil regions? 

100

What word best fits the following definition: Those things found in nature that are useful to humans.

What are natural resources? 

100

What is the capital and largest city in Mississippi?

What is Jackson?

200

What river makes up the Western border between Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas?

What is The Mississippi River?

200

What word best fits the following definition: A dark, funnel-shaped cloud with swirling winds that can measure over two hundred miles an hour.

What is a tornado?

200

What is the name of the period of time in Mississippi history from its founding as a territory in 1798 to the beginning of the civil war in 1861?

What is the Antebellum Period?

200

Is groundwater found above or below the surface of the land? 

What is below?

200

What boot shaped state can be found to the southwest of Mississippi?

What is Louisiana? 

300

What gulf can be found to the south of Mississippi?

What is the Gulf of Mexico?

300

What major hurricane hit Mississippi  on August 17, 1969?

What is hurricane Camille? 

300

What is the native american word for corn?

What is maize?

300

What resource do we extract when we harvest trees?

What are timber resources?

300

What does the acronym GPS stand for? 

What is Global Positioning System?

400

What is the highest point in Mississippi?

What is Woodall Mountain / Mount Woodall? 

400

Racoons, squirrels, black bears, loctus, mosquitoes, rattle snakes, opossums, and armadillos are all examples of native ______________. 

What is native fauna? 

400

Which word best fits the following definition: A scientist who studies the origin, history, and composition of Earth's crust.

What is a geologist?

400

What is the official term for "water farming?"

What is aquaculture?

400

Gas, oil, gravel, sand, and clay are all examples of what type of resource?

What are mineral resoruces?

500

What word best fits the following definition: A precise location on Earth's surface.

What is absolute location? 

500

What type of natural disaster occured on April 21, 1927 when the Mississippi River overflowed its levi near Greenville? 

What is the great flood of 1927 / what is a flood?

500

What is someone who farms another man's land for a share of the crop known as? 

What is a sharecropper?

500

What is the official term for the six large man-made lakes where water is collected and kept in quantity for use? 

What are reservoirs? 

500

What type of water are lakes, ponds, rivers, and reservoirs? 

What is surface water?