Region of Mississippi
Geographic Features
Vocabulary
Mississippi
Do you know
100

The Yazoo Basin is also known as 

What is Delta 

100

Latitude and longitude tell what location 

What is absolute 

100

Something in nature that is useful to humans  

What are natural resources

100

The name of the Mississippi most fertile agriculture region is located in the western part of the state

What is the Mississippi River 

100

Mississippi is listed  in the Union 

what is 32

200

Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish plants, in a controlled environment 

 What is Aquaculture 

200

 The storage space for water m typically created by damming rivers and includes lakes, ponds and other bodies of water 

What is Reservior 

200

The average weather conditions of a region over a long period.

What is Climate



200
The major river from the Mississippi western border

What is the Mississippi River 

200

 A town that has a courthouse

county seat

300

The highest point in Mississippi 

 What is Tombigbee Hills 

300

The most fertile soil has a color than others.

What is darker 

300

The low grade of coal 

What is lignite

300

The body of water that is located to the south of  Mississippi 

What is the Gulf of Mexico 

300
The scientist  who studies the origin, history, and composition of Earth crust 

What is geologist 

400

The period of time in the southern before the Civil War

What is Antebellum Period

400

The number of counties in Mississippi 

What is 82

400

The area of land that drains into the tributaries and eventually into the large river 

What is Drainage Basin 

400

 The least common MS natural hazard

What is the Earthquake

400

The imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere

What is the Equator 

500

The region has the most fertile soil 

What is Delta

500

The only landforms in MS are

What is Hills and Plains

500

The person who farmed another man's land for a share of the crop

What is Sharecropper 

500

The source of our drinking water

What is Groundwater

500

Th highest prairie point in Mississippi 

What is Black Prairie