Jeopardy

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Jeopardy
U. S. Geography
Q 6
Q 16
Q 11
Q 21
Q 1
Q 2
Q 7
Q 12
Q 17
Q 22
Q 8
Q 13
Q 18
Q 3
Q 23
Q 9
Q 4
Q 14
Q 19
Q 24
Q 5
Q 10
Q 15
Q 20
Q 25
Final Jeopardy
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Question 1
Name the seven continents.
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Answer 1
What are 1. North America 2.
South America 3. Europe
4. Africa 5. Asia
6. Australia 7. Antarctica ?
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Question 2
Name the eight regions of North America.
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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 ?
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Question 3
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Coastal Plain.
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Answer 3
What is --broad lowland providing many excellent
harbors?
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Question 4
This region is located along the Atlantic Ocean
and Gulf of Mexico.
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Answer 4
Where is --the Coastal Plain ?
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Question 5
Name the physical characteristics of the
Appalachian Mountains.
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Answer 5
What are --old, eroded mountains the oldest
mountain range in North America?
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Question 6
This is the location of the Appalachian Mountain
region.
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Answer 6
What is --west of the Coastal Plains extending
from eastern Canada to western Alabama ?
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Question 7
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Canadian Shield region.
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Answer 7
What are --hills worn by erosion hundreds of
lakes carved by glaciers holds some of the
oldest rock formations in North America ?
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Question 8
This region is wrapped around Hudson Bay in a
horseshoe shape.
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Answer 8
Where is --the Canadian Shield located ?
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Question 9
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Interior Lowlands.
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Answer 9
What are --rolling flatlands with many rivers,
broad river valleys and grassy hills ?
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Question 10
This is the location of the Interior Lowlands
region.
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Answer 10
What is --west of the Appalachian Mountains and
east of the Great Plains ?
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Question 11
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Great Plains.
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Answer 11
What is --flat land that gradually increases in
elevation westward grasslands ?
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Question 12
This is the location of the Great Plains region.
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Answer 12
What is --west of the Interior Lowlands and east
of the Rocky Mountains ?
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Question 13
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Rocky Mountain region.
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Answer 13
What is --rugged mountains stretching from Alaska
to Mexico high elevations contains the
Continental Divide, which determines the
directional flow of rivers?
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Question 14
This is the location of the Rocky Mountain region.
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Answer 14
What is --west of the Great Plains and east of
the Basin and Range ?
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Question 15
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Basin and Range region.
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Answer 15
What are --areas of varying elevations containing
isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the
lowest point in North America ?
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Question 16
This is the location of the Basin and Range
region.
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Answer 16
What is --west of the Rocky Mountains and east of
the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades ?
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Question 17
This is the lowest point in North America.
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Answer 17
What is --Death Valley?
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Question 18
Describe the physical characteristics of the
Coastal Range region.
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Answer 18
What are --rugged mountains that contain fertile
valleys ?
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Question 19
This is the location of the Coastal Range region.
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Answer 19
What is --along the Pacific Coast, stretching
from California to Canada?
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Question 20
Name the two oceans that border the United States.
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Answer 20
What are --the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans ?
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Question 21
Name the six main rivers of the United States.
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Answer 21
What are the 1. Mississippi 2.
Missouri 3. Ohio 4.
Columbia 5. Colorado 6.
Rio Grande ?
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Question 22
These lakes provide inland ports in the Midwest.
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Answer 22
What are --the Great Lakes ?
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Question 23
Name the gulf located in the southern United
States.
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Answer 23
What is --the Gulf of Mexico?
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Question 24
These reasons explain why the major bodies of
water were important to the United States.
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Answer 24
What are --they provided trade, transportation,
and settlement areas for the people ?
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Question 25
The Atlantic Ocean served as a highway for these
people.
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Answer 25
Who were --the explorers, early settlers, and
later the immigrants ?
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Final Jeopardy
This river is called the gateway to the west.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is --the Ohio River?