1. What kind of geographer studies landforms, water, and climate?

1. What do Human geograhers study?

Which city is the only mainland city in the U.S. that is not part of a state?

Which peak is the highest in the U.S.?

What is the lowest point in the U.S.?

What is the imaginary line called the divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphers?

How many time zones does Earth have?

Which direction do lines of Latitude appear on a globe?

Which distances do lines of Latitude measure?

How fast does the sun cross the U.S. every hour?

Which direction do lines of Longitude appear on a globe?

Which distances do lines of Longitude measure?

What do we call mapmakers?

A map projection is a way to show Earth on a round surface.

All map projections distort, or change the shape of Earth's geography

A map scale shows connections between distances on Earth and distances on the map.

What word means when people move?

Immigrants are people who move from one neighborhood to another.

Immigrants are people who move from one country to another.

Harsh conditions may ______________ people to leave their homes.

Exciting opportunities may _____________ people to leave their homes.

The Potato Famine, Dust Bowl, and Hurricanes are examples of?

Gold Fever, the Transcontinental Railroad, and Jobs are examples of ?

This is the largest man made island in the U.S.

A Grade is the degree of tilt of a road or hill.

Building terraces, dams, islands and/or pipelines are examples of?

Where does 80% of our winter vegetables come from?

Which two famous explores used rivers to explore the West from 1804-1806?

What dam created Lake Mead

The driest state in the U.S. is?

What is needed to produce hydroelectric power?

This invention made the Mississippi river a major commerical thoroughfare.

The Missouri river is the longest river in the U. S.

The Mississippi river carries less water than the Missouri river.

This landscape separates water flowing east to the Atlantic Ocean from west to the Pacific.

The Grand Canyon is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world.

An earthquake can be measured by a Richter scale.

Weathering and erosion are quick developing processes that change the Earth's surface.

The following are natural processes that can change the Earth's surface quickly

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