Jeopardy U. S. Geography Q 1 Q 6 Q 11 Q 16 Q 21 Q 2 Q 7 Q 12 Q 17 Q 22 Final Jeopardy

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 characteristics of 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 characteristics of 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 characteristics of 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 around Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape.

Answer 8 Where is --the Canadian Shield located ?

Question 9 Describe the physical characteristics of the Interior Lowlands.

Answer 9 What are --rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys and grassy hills ?

Question 10 This is the location of the Interior Lowlands region.

Answer 10 What is --west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains ?

Question 11 Describe the physical characteristics of the Great Plains.

Answer 11 What is --flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands ?

Question 12 This is the location of the Great Plains region.

Answer 12 What is --west of the Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains ?

Question 13 Describe the physical characteristics of the Rocky Mountain region.

Answer 13 What is --rugged mountains stretching from Alaska to Mexico; high elevations; contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers?

Question 14 This is the location of the Rocky Mountain region.

Answer 14 What is --west of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range ?

Question 15 Describe the physical characteristics of the Basin and Range region.

Answer 15 What are --areas of varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America ?

Question 16 This is the location of the Basin and Range region.

Answer 16 What is --west of the Rocky Mountains 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 characteristics of the Coastal Range region.

Answer 18 What are --rugged mountains that 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 that border the United States.

Answer 20 What are --the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans ?

Question 21 Name the six main rivers of 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 inland ports in the Midwest.

Answer 22 What are --the Great Lakes ?

Question 23 Name the gulf located in the southern United States.

Answer 23 What is --the Gulf of Mexico?

Question 24 These reasons explain why the major bodies of water were important to the United States.

Answer 24 What are --they provided trade, transportation, and settlement areas for the people ?

Question 25 The Atlantic Ocean served as a highway for these people.

Answer 25 Who were --the explorers, early settlers, and later the immigrants ?

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

Final Jeopardy Answer What is --the Ohio River?