Regions of the US
Directions
Latitude/Longitude
Map Scale
Lakes, Rivers, Oceans
100
This region of the United States includes Florida, Georgia and Mississippi among other states.
What is the Southeastern Region?
100
This symbol showing the cardinal directions.
What is the compass rose?
100
Zero degrees latitude
What is the equator?
100
On a map scale, one inch equals one mile. 10 inches are equal to this in mileage.
What is 10 miles?
100
This river is the longest river in the United States?
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This region of the U.S. stretches from Canada, through Montana and Wyoming and down to New Mexico.
What is the Rocky Mountain region?
200
North, South, East, West
What are the 4 cardinal directions?
200
Zero degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
One inch equals 30 km on a map scale. 8 inches are equal to this in kilometers?
What is 240 km?
200
This body of water is along the western coast of the U.S.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington, and Oregon
What is the Pacific Region?
300
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the east?
300
Northern and Southern AND Eastern and Western "halves"
What are the hemispheres?
300
One inch equals 4 feet on a map scale. A room is 12 feet long. On the map, this is how long the room is.
What is 3 inches?
300
This body of water lies along the east coast of the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, New York are among the states included in this region of the U.S.
What is the Northeastern Region?
400
The sun sets in this direction.
What is the west?
400
Latitude lines are also called this.
What are parallels?
400
On a map scale, one inch equals 16 miles. A measure of 5 inches is equivalent to this mileage.
What is 80 miles?
400
Huron, Ontario, Erie, Superior, Michigan
What are the Great Lakes?
500
This region includes Illinois, Indiana and Ohio among other states.
What is the Central Region?
500
The primary intercardinal directions.
What are the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
500
This is place where the Prime Meridian is located.
What is Greenwich, England?
500
On a map scale, one quarter inch equals 5 miles. 10 inches equal this in mileage.
What is 200 miles?
500
This body of water is off the coast of western Florida?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
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