US Landforms, Rivers, Lakes, and Regions
Map Skills and Types of Maps
US Census Regions
State Abbreviations
State Capitals and Population
100

California area known for high-tech companies.

What is Silicon Valley?

100

This part of a map helps find distance.

What is a scale?

100

The historical settlement founded by the British in 1607 on the James River in Virginia.

What is Jamestown?

100
These are the abbreviations for Tennessee, North Dakota, and Ohio.

What are TN, ND, and OH?

100

The state capitals for the states Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Utah.

What are Madison, Nashville, and Salt Lake City?

200

Mountain range in Oregon and Washington.

What is the Cascade Range?

200

This part of a map helps identify symbols and what they represent.

What is a legend/key?

200

This region was a part of the country that suffered from a decline in industry during the 1970s and 1980s.

What is The Rust Belt?

200
These are the abbreviations for Virginia, Alabama, and Arizona.

What are VA, AL, and AZ?

200

The state capitals for Alaska, Oklahoma, and Kansas?

What are Juneau, Oklahoma City, and Topeka?

300

A large Canyon in Arizona carved by the Colorado River?

What is the Grand Canyon?

300

This part of a map helps show directions.

What is a compass rose?

300

This landform extends through the western United States and Canada.

What is the Rocky Mountains?

300

These are the abbreviations for Nevada, California, and Florida.

What are NV, CA, and FL?

300
What are the state capitals for California, Indiana, Texas, and Oregon?
What are Sacramento, Indianapolis, Austin, and Salem?
400

Low-lying land between the Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Atlantic Coastal Plains?

400

This type of map shows state borders and state names.

What is thematic?

400

These are the names of the 5 Great Lakes.

What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?

400

These are the full state names for the abbreviations GA and SC.

What are Georgia and South Carolina?

400

The capitals for Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Arkansas, and Kentucky.

What are Denver, Honolulu, Boston, Little Rock, and Frankfort?

500

Long river that flows through the central United States.

What is the Mississippi River?

500

This type of map shows landforms and physical features.

What is Physical?

500

These are the four US Census regions.

What are the Midwest, Northeast, South, and West?

500

These are the full state names for the abbreviations RI, KY, and MT.

What are Rhode Island, Kentucky, and Montana?

500

Name four major US Population centers.

What are New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Washington D.C., Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Phoenix. 

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