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The answers to the 3 interactive Geography puzzles at www.vocabulary.com/geography.html are:
Reminder: You can access the Geography FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS Assessment exercise here.
Also, discussion questions are listed at the bottom of this page."
A: abrasion, acre, alluvial, alp, Antarctica, archipelago, arctic, area, arroyo, atlas, atmosphere, atoll, Australia, axis, azimuth
B: badlands, basin, bayou, berm, bluff, bog, border, bowl, butte
C: caldera, canal, canyon, cardinal points, cartographer, cartography, cascade, cavern, channel, chaparral, chasm, cliff, climate, coast(al), coniferous, continent, copse, crag, crater, crevasse, crevice, cuesta
celestial, compass, continent, coordinate D: deciduous, degree, delta, desert, doldrums, dune
E: Earth, eddy, elevation, eluvial, equator, equidistant, equinox, erosion, escarpment, esker, estuary, Eurasia, Europe, everglade, exfoliation
F: feature, fiord (fjord), forest, flood plain, frost, fissure
G: gap, glacial, glacier, glade, glen, globe, gorge, grassland, Great Divide, Greenland, Greenwich, grid, grotto, grove, gulch, gulf, gully
H: harbor, headland, heath, height, hemisphere, highland, horizon, hummock
I: iceberg, igneous rock, inlet, International Date Line, island, isobar, isotherm, isthmus
J: jungle
K: key, knoll, kill
L: lagoon, land, landform, landscape, latitude, legend, littoral, longitude
M: magnetic, mainland, map, maritime, massif, meander, Mercator projection, meridian, mesa, minute, moor, morass, mountain
N: nadir, natural, North America, Northern Hemisphere, North Pole
O: oasis, ocean, Oceania, ooze, overlook, ozone
P: palisade, pampas, parallel, pelagic, peninsula, permafrost, permeable, physical, piedmont, pinnacle, plains, plateau, polar, polder (Netherlands), pole, pollutant, prairie, prime meridian, projection, promontory
Q: quagmire, quicksand
R: rainforest, range, ravine, reclamation, reef, region, relief, resource, reservoir, ridge, rift, rotation, runoff
S: salinity, sandbar, saturation, savanna, scale, sea level, seascape, sediment, shoal, shore, sierra, sinkhole, snow, soil, solstice, South America, South Pole, Southern Hemisphere, steppe, stratosphere, sub-arctic, swamp
T: taiga, talus, tide, temperate, terrain, territory, timberline, topography, topsoil, tributary, tropical, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, topography, tundra
U: undergrowth
V: valley, vega (Spain), veld (Africa), vineyard, vista, vortex
W: wasteland, watershed, waterspout, waterway, weathering, winds, woodland
X:Y:Z: zenith, zone
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Discussion questions:1. There are 7 geographic regions in the US. Name them. 2. Write reports on one/two/three of these regions. 3. What are the regional characteristics? Where would you like to live? Why? For an "assessment exercise" for the Geography Thematic Content, click on Geography FITB Assessment here.
We have five exercises using from 12 to 26 different geography puzzle words:
Main Geography interactive puzzle Geography Crossword Geography Word Find Geography Definition Match Geography Fill-in-the-Blanks Geography/Cartography Alphalary Word List - you are here!
Find the Words: ["S139Level 1 WF"] --
["S139Level 2 WF"] --
["S139Level 3 WF"]
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S139Level 1-FITB"] --
["S139Level 2-FITB"] --
["S139Level 3-FITB"]
Definition MATCH: ["S139Level 1-Match"] --
["S139Level 2-Match"] --
["S139Level 3-Match"]
Crosswords: ["S139Level 1 C/W"] --
["S139Level 2 C/W"] --
["S139Level 3 C/W"]
Contextual Stories: ["S139Level 1 Story"] --
["S139Level 2 Story"] --
["S139Level 3 Story"]
Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] --
["S139Level 2 T/F"] --
["S139Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S139Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 3-Syn/Ant]
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["S139 Level 1"] --
["S139 Level 2"] --
["S139 Level 3"]
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