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Final Jeopardy

U. S. Geography

Question 1

Name the seven continents.

Answer 1

What are 1. North America 2. South America 3. Europe 4. Africa 5. Asia 6. Australia 7. Antarctica ?

Question 2

Name the eight regions of North America.

Answer 2

What are 1. Coastal Plains 2. Appalachian Mountains 3. Canadian Shield 4. Interior Lowlands 5. Great Plains 6. Rocky Mountains 7. Basin and Range 8. Coastal Range ?

Question 3

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Coastal Plain.

Answer 3

What is --broad lowland providing many excellent harbors?

Question 4

This region is located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 4

Where is --the Coastal Plain ?

Question 5

Name the physical characteristicsof the Appalachian Mountains.

Answer 5

What are --old, eroded mountains; the oldest mountain range in North America?

Question 6

This is the location of the Appalachian Mountain region.

Answer 6

What is --west of the Coastal Plains extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama ?

Question 7

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Canadian Shield region.

Answer 7

What are --hills worn by erosion &hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers;holds some of the oldest rock formations in North America ?

Question 8

This region is wrapped aroundHudson Bay in a horseshoe shape.

Answer 8

Where is --the Canadian Shield

located ?

Question 9

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Interior Lowlands.

Answer 9

What are --rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleysand grassy hills ?

Question 10

This is the location of the Interior Lowlands region.

Answer 10

What is --west of the AppalachianMountains and east of the GreatPlains ?

Question 11

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Great Plains.

Answer 11

What is --flat land that graduallyincreases in elevation westward;grasslands ?

Question 12

This is the location of the GreatPlains region.

Answer 12

What is --west of the InteriorLowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains ?

Question 13

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Rocky Mountain region.

Answer 13

What is --rugged mountains stretchingfrom Alaska to Mexico; high elevations; contains the ContinentalDivide, which determines the directional flow of rivers?

Question 14

This is the location of the RockyMountain region.

Answer 14

What is --west of the Great Plainsand east of the Basin and Range ?

Question 15

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Basin and Range region.

Answer 15

What are --areas of varying elevationscontaining isolated mountain rangesand Death Valley, the lowest pointin North America ?

Question 16

This is the location of the Basin and Range region.

Answer 16

What is --west of the RockyMountains and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades ?

Question 17

This is the lowest point in North America.

Answer 17

What is --Death Valley?

Question 18

Describe the physical characteristicsof the Coastal Range region.

Answer 18

What are --rugged mountainsthat contain fertile valleys ?

Question 19

This is the location of the Coastal Range region.

Answer 19

What is --along the Pacific Coast,stretching from California to Canada?

Question 20

Name the two oceans thatborder the United States.

Answer 20

What are --the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans ?

Question 21

Name the six main riversof the United States.

Answer 21

What are the 1. Mississippi 2. Missouri 3. Ohio

4. Columbia 5. Colorado 6. Rio Grande ?

Question 22

These lakes provide inlandports in the Midwest.

Answer 22

What are --the Great Lakes ?

Question 23

Name the gulf located in thesouthern United States.

Answer 23

What is --the Gulf of Mexico?

Question 24

These reasons explain why the majorbodies of water were important tothe United States.

Answer 24

What are --they provided trade,transportation, and settlementareas for the people ?

Question 25

The Atlantic Ocean served as ahighway for these people.

Answer 25

Who were --the explorers, earlysettlers, and later the immigrants ?

Final Jeopardy

This river is called “the gateway to the west.”

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is --the Ohio River?