I am in the Northern hemisphere. The students who read this live on the surface of me (except for a few who float above)
What is North America?
100
This river, not required on your maps, runs northeast through Canada to the Atlantic ocean. It flows past the oldest city in Canada, Quebec.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
100
This river runs the length of a large part of the border between The Untied States and Mexico.
What is The Rio Grande River?
100
It is a cold continent here in the Southern hemisphere where penguins play and no one country owns.
What is Antarctica?
100
I wrap around Hudson Bay like a horseshoe with some of the oldest rocks in the world and many, many useful minerals. Part of me descends into New York and Michigan.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
If you sail directly east from Miami, Fla. you will eventually either; be eaten by sharks, or come to this lovely continent.
What is Africa?
200
I am an island, I am a country, I am a continent...
What is Australia?
200
They call me GATEWAY TO THE WEST! as I flow southwest to the mighty Mississippi River and carried early settlers and supplies west.
What is the Ohio River?
200
I traipse slowly from Canada to Connecticut and form the border between Vermont and New Hampshire.
What is the Connecticut River?
200
Big western mountains. You can't miss them. They are part of a formation stretching from Alaska to Chile and Argentina.
What is the Rocky Mountain region?
300
The equator, the imaginary line separating the Northern and Southern hemispheres, runs through Quito on this continent.
What is South America?
300
Lewis and Clark floated west to the Pacific Ocean in 1805 on me. I form a border between Washington and Oregon.
What is The Columbia River?
300
I flow northeast and then southeast over the fall line and past our lovely nation's capital. (If you get this wrong I'm going to have you walk over to it!)
What is the Potomac River?
300
I have rugged mountains along the Pacific coast that slope down to the sea.
What is the Coastal Range?
300
"Home, home on the range..." Located east of the Rocky Mountains, I am a vast, rising plain of grasslands, bison, pronghorn and prairie dogs. Some of the richest land in the world covers me.
What is the Great Plains Region?
400
Cities on this continent include Prague and Budapest. It is attached to a larger continent, probably by early geographers.
What is Europe?
400
This river was explored by the Spanish and runs through the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
What is The Colorado River?
400
I am called "The Big Muddy" and I course through the heart of my great land. A baby in Minnesota, I am a monster at the Gulf of Mexico.
What is The Mississippi River?
400
Death Valley is my calling card but I have many low areas between rocky ridges in the west.
What is the Basin and Range Region?
400
I am located west of the Appalachian Mountains. I have rolling flat lands (sounds like a contradiction to me) with many rivers that flow west, broad river valleys and grassy hills.
What is the Interior Lowland region?
500
The "big momma" of all continents, this area includes China, India and a host of other countries.
What is Asia?
500
This river flows southeast and meets the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
What is The Missouri River?
500
I have broad lowlands with many excellent harbors, woods and horseshoe crabs.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plains?
500
I include land from Great Falls to the top of the Appalachian Mountains. Oh, wait... that's a give away!
What is the Appalachian Highlands?
500
Two questions: 1. What is the imaginary line across mountain ranges that determines the flow of water?
2. What is the name of the gulf bordering the southern U.S. that provided the Spanish and French with exploration routes?
What is a continental divide?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?