Set 1
What Geographical Region is the state of Florida included in?
Southeast Region
Where was the first Capital of the United States located from 1785-1790?
New York City
What is absolute location?
Refers to the exact spot of a place on the Earth’s surface.
What is the longest river in the United States?
Missouri River
Give two states that are included in the Northeast Region.
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
Who did the U.S. purchase Alaska from?
Russia
What is relative location?
Is where a place is compared with one or more places. Miami is southeast of Tampa, west of the Atlantic Ocean, and about 228 miles north of the capital city of Havana on the Island of Cuba.
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Pacific Ocean
What region is Texas included in?
Southwest Region
Who did the U.S. acquire Texas from?
Mexico
How is a globe different from a map?
A globe is a round model of the Earth. It shows the Earth’s shape and its lands.
A map is a flat drawing of all or part of the Earth’s surface.
Maps can show small areas such as a college campus. They can show streets in a city. Or they can show whole continents or even the entire world. There are also historical maps, which show the features of a place at some time in the past.
What is the second longest river in the United States?
Mississippi River
What Geographical Region is California included in?
West
What is the largest state in the U.S?
Alaska
What is a human system?
Includes all the things humans create- as they build their lives together on Earth. (Cities)
What ocean is on the East coast of the United States?
Atlantic Ocean
What states make up the Southwest Region of the United States?
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Texas
Who did the United States purchase Louisiana from?
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
What are Physical systems?
They include the complex forces that create weather—wind, rain, snow, and storms.
What country does New York border to the North?
What country does Texas border to the South?
Canada
Mexico