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What type of features include the ideas, languages, and religions of a place?
Physical features
Geographic features
Cultural features
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Moisture that falls from the sky as rain, snow, or sleet.
Weather
Precipitation
Climate
3
What is the lowest and hottest place in the United States?
Great Plains
Hawaiian Islands
Death Valley
4
Where is Yellowstone National Park?
Great Smoky Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
5
What are advantages of maps over globes? Check all that apply
Distance and direction are more accurate than globes
They can show much more detail than a globe
You can see all hemispheres at the same time, unlike globes
They are the same shape as the actual Earth, unlike globes
6
What is the longest river in the United States?
Missouri River
Ohio River
Columbia River
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What is the highest point in the Appalachian Mountains?
Mauna Kea
Mount Mitchell
Mount Whitney
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What do we call climate regions that get less than 10 inches of rain per year?
Marine
Desert
Mediterranean
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The five themes of geography are location, place, HEI, region, and...
Movement
Weather
Value
Time
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What has the most influence on the climate of highland regions?
Longitude
Ocean currents
Elevation
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The elevation above which trees cannot grow.
Sea Level
Timberline
Pine Level
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The Rocky Mountains stretch from Alaska to...
Mexico
Oregon
Canada
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What term means "earth description"?
Geography
History
Geology
14
What continent do we live on?
South America
North America
Africa
Europe
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What is the tallest mountain in the United States?
Mount Whitney
Mount Aconcagua
Denali
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With over 460 inches of rain per year, what is one of the wettest spots on Earth?
Death Valley
Great Salt Lake
Mount Waialeale
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Opposite the Prime Meridian...
Equator
Arctic Circle
International Date Line
Prime Meridian
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What is a continent?
a took that shows directions
a body of water
a large land mass on earth
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Which region is known as America's Breadbasket because so much grain is grown there?
Pacific Coast
Interior Plains
Canadian Shield
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What continent is this?
Antarctica
North America
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Which theme of geography describes how humans are constantly changing the Earth?
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Region
22
Which theme of geography describes the activities that have most affected our nation's history?
Location
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
23
What is the source of the Mississippi River?
Lake Itasca in Minnesota
Great Salt Lake in Utah
Sardis Lake in Mississippi
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What is the largest river system in the United States?
Rio Grande
Colorado River
Mississippi River
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The condition of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
Weather
Precipitation
Climate
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Lines north and south of the equator are...
Meridians
International Date Line
Longitude
Latitude
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Which type of location serves as a "global address"?
Geographic location
Relative location
Absolute location
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The usual weather patterns over a long period of time.
Precipitation
Weather
Climate
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Which theme of geography describes what different places have in common?
Place
Region
Location
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Saying that Oak Grove is southwest of Sumrall is an example of what type of location?
Absolute location
Geographic location
Relative location
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What continent is this?
Asia
North America
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What continent is this?
Europe
Asia
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To say that Chicago is on Lake Michigan is to give Chicago's...
Global Location
Relative Location
Absolute Location
Cultural Location
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What type of lines measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian?
Longitude
Latitude
Parallels
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The 5 main oceans of the world are
Caspian Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Sea of Japan, Coral Sea,
Persian Gulf, English Channel, Yellow Sea, Baltic Sea
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Antarctic, Indian Ocean
Arctic circle, Bering Strait, Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea
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What type of lines measure distance north and south of the Equator?
Meridians
Longitude
Latitude
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What continent is this?
Australia
Antarctica
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What type of features include land and water forms, plant and animal life, and climate?
Geographic features
Physical features
Cultural features
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Located at 0° latitude...
Equator
Arctic Circle
International Date Line
Prime Meridian
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What percent of the world is covered with water?
10%
40%
70%
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Which type of map shows natural features like rivers and mountains?
Physical Map
Political Map
Special-purpose Map
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Lines east and west of the Prime Meridian are...
Parallels
Longitude
Equator
Latitude
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What region is Oak Grove, Mississippi in?
Coastal Plains
Pacific Coast
Intermountain Region
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Low hills at the base of a mountain.
Foothills
Mesa
Isthmus
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Geographers divide the world into regions that...
Have something in common
Are exactly the same
Are equal in area
Have the same number of people
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What continent is this?
South America
North America
47
How many oceans are in the world?
20
10
1
5
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Located at 0° longitude...
Arctic Circle
International Date Line
Prime Meridian
Equator
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A narrow strip of land that connects two large landmasses.
Mesa
Foothills
Isthmus
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What type of water are Oceans?
Fresh
Heavy
Brackish
Salt
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What is the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere?
Mount Whitney
Denali
Mount Aconcagua
