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Jeopardy
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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?