What mountain range is the largest in North America and home of the Continental Divide?
Rocky Mountain Range
What is the longest river in the US?
Missouri River
What is the US' deepest lake?
Crater Lake in Oregon
Ocean to the West of the US
Pacific
Water flows from four Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie) into the Niagara River at this point
Niagara Falls
What mountain has the highest wind speeds on earth?
Mount Washington in New Hampshire
What is the name of the large reef system off the coast of Florida?
Florida Reef (Florida Keys Reef Tract)
What mountain range is the major mountain range in the eastern US that terminates in Maine?
Appalachian Mountain Range
What river carved out the Grand Canyon and is dammed by the Hoover Dam
Colorado River
What is the largest saltwater lake?
The Great Salt Lake, UT is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, covering more area than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
THe Mississippi empties into what body of water?
Gulf of Mexico
Located in the midwest, its a great expansive farmland that makes the area known as the nation's breadbasket
THe Great Plains
The Appalachian Trail goes over 2,000 miles and goes from which states?
Georgia to Maine
Which state is home to the Everglades National Park with the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere ?
Florida
What mountain range is made of volcanoes and lies on the Ring of Fire?
Cascade Mountain Range
Oldest River in the US?
Susquehanna River, flowing through Pennsylvania and Maryland, is considered one of the oldest in the world, with some parts dating back over 300 million years.
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
What ocean is to the east of the US?
Atlantic Ocean
WHere is the world's only temperate rain forest?
Pacific Northwest
What is a Northeaster?
A Northeaster is a snowstorm that can bring over a foot of snow at one time.
Which river flows through New York City?
Hudson River
What is the tallest Mountain in the US?
Mount Denali (formerly Mt McKinley) in Alaska at 20,300 ft
What river borders the US and Mexico?
Rio Grande
What is the largest lake in the US?
Lake Superior
What state is known as the Land of 1000 lakes?
Minnesota
Largest state?
Alaska
What is the largest city in the US?
New York City
What is the name of the largest bay in the United States?
Chesapeake Bay- runs from Maryland to Virginia Beach
What Mountain exploded in Washington State in the 1980s?
Mt St Helens
What river borders Oregon and Washington?
Columbia River
state with the most lakes
Alaska (3000 lakes)
What is the lowest point in the US?
Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California at -282 ft below sea level
Rhode Island
What is the largest state in the "lower 48?"
Texas
This state is known as the "Bay State" and the Pilgrims landed in Cape Cod Bay that is in this state.
Massachusetts
Highest mountain in the contiguous US
Mt Whitney in CA at 14505 ft
There is 1 river in the US that can flow to either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean
North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest
What is the Great Lakes State?
Michigan
What 4 states meet together to form the "4 Corners?"
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
What river forms part of the border between New York State and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
What is the name of the major fault line in California where the majority of the serious earthquakes happen?
San Andreas fault line
What granite mountain was named by the Penobscot people as "the Great Mountain?"
Mount Katahdin
What state is fully in a mountain range? It is known as the Mountain State because of it?
West Virginia (completely within the Appalachian Range)
This river drains over 40% of the continental U.S. river systems into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mississippi River
These lakes were formed by glaciers and look like fingers. They are located in upstate NY.
the fingerlakes
Where is the Grand Canyon?
Arizona
What manmade canal in NY, covering 363 miles when completed in 1825, connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
The Erie Canal
Which U.S. state is home to the Badlands?
South Dakota
What state has the most 14ers?
Colorado