Texas Geography Jeopardy Template

Vocabulary	Map Features	Texas Regions and Characteristics	Key Terms	What, What?
100 What is shapes and types of land? Landforms	100 What is a map that shows features of a place such as countries, counties, states, and cities? Political Map	100 What is the largest region in Texas? The Coastal Plains	100 What is the theory that the Earth's surface is divided into a number of plates which float independently over hot liquid rock, forming new land patterns and causing earthquakes? Plate Tectonics	100 What is plant life that grows in an area? Vegetation
200 What is the study of the land and its features? Physical Geography	200 What is a map that highlights many of the natural features of a place, such as mountains, plains, rivers, and lakes, by using color and shading? Physical Map	200 What is the region that is North West of the Coastal Plains? The North Central Plains	200 What is the average weather of a place over a period of 20 to 30 years? Climate	200 What is the customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of people? Culture
300 What is learning about people and their ways? Human Geography	300 What is the most accurate "picture" of the Earth? Globe	300 What is the region that contains large stretches of flat, rolling land? The Great Plains	300 What is an imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern halves? Equator	300 What is the location of a place compared to another place? Relative Location
400 What is the term geographers use to describe the exact location of a place? Absolute Location	400 What is the measures of distance east and west from the equator? Longitude	400 What is the region that makes up the westernmost part of Texas? The Mountains and Basins	400 What is lines of longitude, that measure distance east and west from the Prime Meridian? Meridian	400 What is a change in elevation? Relief
500 What is an imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England, and divides the Earth into eastern and western halves? Prime Meridian	500 What is the measures of distance north and south from the equator? Latitude	500 What is long periods in which rain falls at a much lower rate than usual and may cause severe damage to crops? Drought	500 What is a method of transferring the Earth's curved surface onto a flat map, or an educated guess about future changes in the population based on known data? Projection	500 What is the size of a globe compared to the Earth itself? Scale

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