Geography | Bodies of Water | Landforms | Climate | Miscellaneous |
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What is geography
The study of earth's landscape
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What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario
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What is the Rocky Mountain Range?
Largest mountain range in North America
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What is the Tropical Region?
This region is very hot and humid most of the year with very high rainfall.
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What is America the Beautiful?
Katherine Lee Bates wrote this song after traveling from Massachusetts to Colorado.
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What is North and South America
35 countries in these continents
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What is the Mississippi River?
The longest river in the US
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What is a prarie
An area of flat land
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What is the Arid Region?
This region has very low rainfall with large temperature changes from winter to summer.
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What is the Forest region?
This vegetation region has many trees.
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What is contiguous?
Sharing a common border
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What is a gulf?
A large area of ocean or sea that extends into land.
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What is the Great Plains
Large area of flat land that supports
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What is the Temperate Region.
This region has warm summers and cold winters with moderate rainfall and snow in the winter.
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What is the Grassland?
The vegetation region does not have many trees, but has taller grasses for grazing animals to feed.
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What are continents?
7 large land masses on the earth
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What is the continental divide?
Rain that falls here runs either east or west into the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean.
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What is The Great Basin
This plateau lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains
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What is the Polar Region?
This region has very cold winters and lots of snow but little rain. Summers are only slightly warmer but short.
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What is the Desert?
This vegetation region is the driest part of the world and includes cactuses, shrubs and grasses.
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What is Mexico and Canada?
Two countries that border the contiguous states.
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What is the Great Salt Lake?
The US lake that is five times saltier than the ocean.
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What are plains and valleys?
This type of region is where most farmers want to live and grow crops.
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What is the Coastal Region
This region has smaller seasonal and day to night temperature changes than inland areas.
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What is the Tundra?
This vegetation region has extreme conditions of cold dry and often dark winter conditions.
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