Basic Geography
Land of 10k Lakes
United States
Canada
Mexico
South America
100
The weather of a place over a period of time.
What is the climate?
100
The state flower.
What is the lady slipper?
100
The longest mountain range in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
Instead of states, Canada has these.
What are provinces?
100
This holiday, celebrated in Mexico, sometimes involves the decoration of sugar skulls.
What is Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos?
100
The largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon?
200
Name the seven continents and five oceans.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica, Australia and Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern?
200
What is the state bird?
What is the loon?
200
This body of water connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the St. Lawrence River?
200
This province is 10 miles north of us
Where is Manitoba?
200
The capital city of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
200
This mountain range runs along the west coast of South America
What is the Andes Mountains?
300
Parallel lines that run east and west across the earth.
What are lines of latitude?
300
Where does the Mississippi River start?
What is Lake Itasca?
300
This is the largest state
What is Alaska?
300
Capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
300
This country colonized much of Mexico, central America & South America
Who did Spain colonize?
300
This country connects South America to central America
Where is Panama?
400
This type of map shows landforms.
What is a physical map?
400
Who is the Governor of Minnesota?
Who is Tim Walz?
400
Name the 5 Great Lakes
What are Superior, Erie, Huron, Ontario, Michigan?
400
Big body of water in the center of Canada
What is Hudson Bay?
400
The peninsula that looks like a hook and sticks out into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
400
The name of the world's tallest waterfall that is located in Venezuela.
What is Angel Falls?
500
Name all five themes of geography and give one example of each.
Answers will vary
500
What is the largest city in Minnesota?
What is Minneapolis?
500
Largest elevation point in the US
What is Mount Mckinley or Denali?
500
the 10 Provinces
What is Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island?
500
The thin pice of land that is a peninsula, goes South of California...
What is Baja California?
500
This set of islands off the coast of Ecuador helped Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution.
What are the Galapagos Islands?