Regions
These massive ice formations created Minnesota's flatland and prairies.
What are Glaciers?
This great lake borders Minnesota.
What is Lake Superior?
This is the longest river in the United States, and starts here in Minnesota.
What is the Mississippi River?
This city is the capital of Minnesota.
What is Saint Paul?
The original name of Saint Paul.
What is Pig's Eye Landing?
This region is known for glacial lakes, flat areas, hills and great farmlands.
What are the Drift Plains?
Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about this famous shipwreck on Lake Superior.
What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?
This river begins in Southwestern Minnesota and flows into the Mississippi.
What is the Minnesota River?
This city is one of the "Twin Cities" along with Saint Paul.
What is Minneapolis?
French Fur traders passed through this park on their way to trade with the Native Americans.
What is Voyageurs National Park?
Pieces of these broke off and created the lakes of the Superior Upland and Drift Plains.
What are Glaciers?
The headwaters of the Mississippi River are found here.
What is Itasca State Park?
This city is known as the "Ice Box of the Nation"
What is International Falls?
This used to be an important industry in Minneapolis.
What is lumber or grain?
The largest national forest in the continental United States is located in this region.
What is the Superior Upland?
This lake, found in the Northwest Angle, spills from Minnesota into Canada.
What is Lake of the Woods?
What are the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers?
Rochester is home to this world famous hospital.
What is the Mayo Clinic?
What are grain and lumber?
The Hegman Lake pictographs are located in this wilderness area in the Superior Upland
What is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
The percentage of the world's fresh water that can be found in Lake Superior.
What is 10%?
The meeting spot of these two rivers is the legendary homeland of the Dakota people and location of Fort Snelling.
What are the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers?
This city, located on the banks of the St. Croix River, was named after its calm waters.
What is Stillwater?
This government fort was constructed by early American explorers in Minnesota. Today it is a historical site open to visitors.
What is Fort Snelling?