geography: wrapping up 1st quarter D:(

Question 1

What are continents

Answer 1

Large masses of land, usually surrounded by water

Question 2

What are the 7
continents?

Answer 2

North America, South America, Africa, Asia,
Australia, Antarctica, and Europe.

Question 3

Can you name all 8 of the
geographic regions of
North America?

Answer 3

Coastal Plain, Appalachian Highlands,
Canadian Shield, Interior Lowlands, Great
Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and
Range, Coastal Range.

Question 4

Where is the Coastal
Plain?

Answer 4

Right next to the Atlantic Ocean and the
Gulf of Mexico.

Question 5

What is the Coastal Plain
like?

Answer 5

Wide flat lowlands with harbors which are
good places for boats.

Question 6

Where are the
Appalachian Highlands?

Answer 6

Right next to the Coastal Plain. They
stretch from Canada down to western
Alabama and include the Piedmont.
Remember that from the fourth grade?

Question 7

What are the Appalachian
Highlands like?

Answer 7

Old, worn down and eroded mountains.
The oldest mountain range in North
America!

Question 8

Where is the Canadian
Shield?

Answer 8

It goes around the Hudson Bay in a
horseshoe shape like a giant U.

Question 9

What’s it like (Canadian Sheild)?

Answer 9

It has hills worn down by erosion and
hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers.

Question 10

Where are the Interior
Lowlands?

Answer 10

Right in-between the Appalachian
Highlands and the Great Plains.

Question 11

Tell me something about the
Lowlands.

Answer 11

The Interior Lowlands have rolling flatlands, many
rivers, wide river valleys and grassy hills.

Question 12

Where are the Great Plains
located?

Answer 12

West of the Interior Lowlands and east of the
Rocky Mountains.

Question 13

What are the Great
Plains like?

Answer 13

Very flat, but they slowly increase in
elevation as they go westward. They get
higher and higher. The plains are
grasslands.

Question 14

Where are the Rocky
Mountains?

Answer 14

In-between the great plains and the Basin
and Range.

Question 15

What are the Rocky
Mountains like?

Answer 15

They are beautiful and stretch from Alaska
almost all the way down to Mexico. They
are very high which means they have very
high elevations!

Question 16

Where is the Basin and
Range?

Answer 16

They are west of the Rocky Mountains and
east of the Coastal Range.

Question 17

What is the Basin and
Range like?

Answer 17

High and low elevations. Some isolated
mountain ranges. It also has Death Valley,
the lowest point in North America.

Question 18

Where is the Coastal
Range?

Answer 18

Along the Pacific Ocean. They stretch from
California to Canada.

Question 19

What are the Coastal
Ranges like?

Answer 19

The mountains are rugged, but there are
also fertile (rich and good for growing)
valleys.

Question 20

What oceans are near
North America?

Answer 20

Atlantic Ocean is in the east and the Pacific
Ocean is in the west.

Question 21

What are the important
rivers of North America?

Answer 21

Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Columbia,
Colorado, Rio Grande, and St. Lawrence.

Question 22

What are the important
lakes of the United
States?

Answer 22

The Great Lakes. Think HOMES: Huron,
Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.

Question 23

What is the famous gulf
near the U.S.?

Answer 23

The Gulf of Mexico is a large and important
body of water.

Question 24

Why was the Gulf of
Mexico so important?

Answer 24

French and Spanish explorers traveled on
the Gulf to reach Mexico and other parts of
America.

Question 25

What did the 2 oceans do
for the U.S.?

Answer 25

The Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
provided access to the rest of the world for
the U.S.

Question 26

What did the Atlantic
Ocean do?

Answer 26

The Atlantic Ocean was a “highway” for
explorers, early settlers and later
immigrants.

Question 27

Why was the Ohio River
important?

Answer 27

It was a “gateway” to the western part of
the U.S. Many people traveled on the Ohio
River to go west.

Question 28

What’s so great about the
Great Lakes?

Answer 28

Port cities grew in the Midwest along the
edge of the Great Lakes. They are the
biggest lakes in the U.S.

Question 29

What about the
Mississippi River and the
Missouri River?

Answer 29

They helped transport farm and industrial
products. They helped connect the U.S. to
other parts of the world.

Question 30

Why was the Columbia
River important?

Answer 30

Lewis + Clark explored it. We will study
them later.

Question 31

Who explored the
Colorado River?

Answer 31

The Spanish.

Question 32

Why was the Rio Grande
River important?

Answer 32

It makes the border between Mexico and
the United States.

Question 33

Why was the Pacific
Ocean important?

Answer 33

Yes. It was used by early explorers, just like
the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 34

Why was the Gulf of
Mexico important?

Answer 34

The French and the Spanish used it as an
exploration route to Mexico and other parts
of America.

Question 35

Why was the St.
Lawrence River
important?

Answer 35

It forms part of the northeastern border with
Canada and connects the Great Lakes to
the Atlantic Ocean.