3rd Grade S.W.

Question 1

(Julia) The Matterhorn is...

Accepted Answer

a mountain in the Alps

Question 2

What separates counties, states, countries by showing where one place ends and another begins? (Presley)

Accepted Answer

borders

Question 3

Which type of map shows highways and important locations like campgrounds, libraries, malls, etc.?

Accepted Answer

road map

Question 4

Which continent is also a country?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 5

What do black dots on a map stand for? (Ezra)

Accepted Answer

major cities

Question 6

The Sahara is the largest desert. (Ezra)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What does NOAA stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Question 8

A peninsula is a a manmade landform.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Who wrote "The Alchemist"?

Accepted Answer

Paulo Coelho

Question 10

According to Natalia and Stephen who might have been the first person to reach the North Pole?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Frederick A. Cook

Question 11

Where is the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 12

Who discovered the theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Marie Tharp

Question 13

Which states borders Tennessee to the south?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia

Question 14

How many continents are there?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 15

A secondary source is a document made by someone who did not experience an event first hand. (Lachlan)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What is migration?

Accepted Answer

Leaving a region to go to another

Question 17

What is the capital of Tennessee?

Accepted Answer

Nashville

Question 18

Which type of map show cities and county, state and country boundaries?

Accepted Answer

political map

Question 19

What hemisphere is Antarctica on? (Ezra)

Accepted Answer

Southern

Question 20

The "Grand Strand" includes which major city?

Accepted Answer

Myrtle Beach

Question 21

The study of the earth's surface is called what?

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 22

What was a type of paper used by ancient Egyptians?

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 23

What are things found in nature are called? (John)

Accepted Answer

natural resources

Question 24

Penguins do not live in the North Pole. (John)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

A line on a globe going from North Pole to South Pole is called?

Accepted Answer

prime meridian

Question 26

Where is the Taj Mahal?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 27

Where is the Louvre?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 28

How many different types of plants and animals are found in the Smoky Mountains? (Julia)

Accepted Answer

10,000

Question 29

Elvis Presley is from what city? (Nico)

Accepted Answer

Memphis

Question 30

A personal diary would be what type of source?

Accepted Answer

primary

Question 31

Myrtle Beach was named after what?

Accepted Answer

a type of plant

Question 32

How many oceans are there?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 33

What is the capital of Spain? (Mikayla)

Accepted Answer

Madrid

Question 34

What is another name for a map key?

Accepted Answer

legend

Question 35

What country is shaped like a boot? (Presley)

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 36

The Black Bear is Tennessee's state mammal.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

Which are cardinal directions?

Accepted Answer

north, east, south, and west

Question 38

A famous mountain in Japan is...

Accepted Answer

Mount Fuji

Question 39

What is cartography?

Accepted Answer

learning how to draw a map

Question 40

Which one is not a highland?

Accepted Answer

plain

Question 41

What do we call Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest?

Accepted Answer

intermediate directions

Question 42

What does a map scale help us with?

Accepted Answer

they help us figure the distance between two places

Question 43

Which type of map shows land forms but includes contour lines the show elevation?

Accepted Answer

topographic map

Question 44

What is a sextant?

Accepted Answer

an instrument establishing geographic position

Question 45

The most populated continent is what? (Aiden)

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 46

What is the desert in the northern part of Asia? (Norah)

Accepted Answer

Gobi

Question 47

A pharaoh is ...

Accepted Answer

a king

Question 48

Each day _____ people in the world die from illness.

Accepted Answer

250,000

Question 49

What crop did farmers grow 1000s of acres of in the 1900s? (Presley)

Accepted Answer

cotton

Question 50

Russia's capital is Mongolia.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 51

What is migration? (Nico)

Accepted Answer

Leaving a region to move to another region

Question 52

A book about the founders of Tennessee is a primary source.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 53

Why is it important to know how long it will take to drive from one place to another? (Donovan

Accepted Answer

So you'll know when to leave

Question 54

What is the longest mountain range in the world? (Julia)

Accepted Answer

Andes

Question 55

What is the smallest continent? (Justice)

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 56

What continent is Brazil one?

Accepted Answer

South America

Question 57

On what continent would you find the "Mona Lisa"?

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 58

Which type of map show factors like average rainfall, inches of snow, and average temperatures?

Accepted Answer

climatic map

Question 59

What does the American Indian word "aroughcoune" mean?

Accepted Answer

he who scratches with his hand

Question 60

The line on a globe dividing the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres is called what?

Accepted Answer

equator

Question 61

What word means really old? (John)

Accepted Answer

Ancient

Question 62

(Aiden) Many people with different cultures living in the same place is called...

Accepted Answer

multicultural

Question 63

Polar Bears live in the North Pole. (John)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 64

Where is the Amazon?

Accepted Answer

South America

3rd Grade S.W.

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3rd Grade S.W.

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