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Connections
Physical Geography & Features
Northeast USA & Map Features
A Government of Powers
Grab Bag!
100
If I am a low elevation landform, like a plain, my climate is probably this.
What is warmer?
100
A map showing the languages spoken in different places is an example of this kind of geography.
What is cultural geography?
100
I am used to see where the map is in a larger regional or global context.
What is a locator?
100
You can describe the United States as a prime example of this because it shares power between the national, state, and local governments, and because the people vote to elect representatives to make government decisions.
What is a federal, democratic system of government?
100
South America is in me. So is part of Africa. And the Prime Meridian is what creates me.
What is the western hemisphere?
200
Rain shadow is an example of this essential element of geography?
What are physical systems?
200
Physical geography includes the study of the Earth's surface and these four things.
What are landforms, bodies of water, climate, and environment?
200
I am used to produce electricity for New York State and I am a major tourist attraction because of my natural beauty.
What is Niagara Falls?
200
I am the three branches of government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
200
When writing the coordinates, I come first. I am an imaginary, horizontal line. As an imaginary line, it is weird that I can talk.
What is latitude?
300
The debate between the federalists and the anti-federalists over the power of the national government was fought in newspapers. This movement of ideas is an example of this essential element of geography.
What are human systems?
300
I am completely flat and covered in grass. I lie in the middle of the United States. I am this physical feature.
What is the Great Plains?
300
I include symbols and pictures and I explain what they mean on a map.
What is a map key?
300
I am a shared power of the state and local governments. Congress can also place me on people so it can spend money. I can be charged on income, property, or things you buy.
What are taxes?
300
I am a factor that causes climate. If you are far away from me, you are cold, if you are close by, you are hot. Some call me zero degrees, but I am actually quite hot.
What is the Equator?
400
If the Supreme Court says that all taxes are unconstitutional, these levels of government are affected.
What are local, state, and national governments because the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land?
400
I am the path of water as it collects in a mountaintop and travels to the ocean.
What is source-river-mouth-ocean?
400
I am a resource that can be used to make metals and other materials. You can mine me in the Northeast.
What are minerals?
400
I am a responsibility of citizenship. Some consider me a patriotic activity. If you are doing this, you are probably working for the common good. And you are not getting paid.
What is volunteering?
400
I cause land to be cool in the summer time by blowing cool air. My warm moisture turns into snow when it hits the cool air of the land in winter.
What is lake effect?
500
A contour map with a lot of lines means that this side of the map will have this climate issue.
What is rain shadow on the non-ocean side?
500
I am a delta, and this is my description.
What is a soil-rich landform left behind as a river flows into a larger body of water?
500
I am sometimes rocky and sometimes sandy, but I am always a hot ticket item on any Northeast vacationer's list.
What is the Northeast Coastline?
500
No one, not even the richest and the most powerful, can get around me. All Americans are held to the same standard and all must be treated equally because of me.
What is the rule of law?
500
When many of me are close together on a map, you need to pull out climbing ropes, because the mountain I am on is very steep.
What are contour lines?