This capital of Utah is named after a body of water.
What is Salt Lake City?
100
This is a section of land which is surrounded by water on 3 sides. (eg. Florida)
What is a peninsula?
100
This state boasts the famous Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival celebrated the third weekend in October.
What is Florida?
100
This imaginary line is located at 0 degrees latitude.
Where is the equator?
100
This capital city of Brazil was built to encourage people to settle inland.
What is Brasilia?
200
The present state capital of Virginia was also the capital of the Confederacy. About 1/2 of all the people in the United States live within a 500 mile radius of this Capital of Virginia.
What is Richmond?
200
This is the term for a strip of water which connects 2 larger bodies of water.
What is a strait? What is a channel?
200
This is the only state in the United States whose name has only one syllable.
What is Maine?
200
This imaginary line passes through Greenwich, England and represents 0 degrees longitude.
Where is the Prime Meridian?
200
These 3 countries have capital cities named after their country.
What is Panama? What is Mexico? What is Guatemala?
300
This capital of New Mexico is the highest capital city in the United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
What is Santa Fe?
300
This is the term for a strip of land which connects two larger land masses.
What is an isthmus?
300
This state has the lowest population of all 50 United States. Yellowstone is its first official National Park (1872).
What is Wyoming?
300
This is located at 180 degrees longitude.
Where is the International Date Line?
300
This is the capital of Chile.
What is Santiago?
400
This state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined. The highest point is Mount Rainier.
What is Washington?
400
This is the term for a chain of islands, for example, the Florida Keys.
What is an archepelego?
400
This state's Constitution officially declares that this is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families here speak Spanish at home.
What is New Mexico?
400
This line is located at 23 degrees, 30 minutes North latitude and marks where the sun is directly overhead at 12:00 noon on the Summer equinox (June 21st).
Where is the Tropic of Cancer?
400
The most populated city in all of the Americas.
What is Mexico City?
500
This capital city transmitted the longest morse code telegram ever sent, the Nevada state constitution. It was sent from this city to Washington D.C. in 1864. The transmission must have taken several hours.
What is Carson City?
500
This is the term for a section of land which just out into water. Such are found at the tip of South America or along the coast of Massachusetts.
What is a cape?
500
This state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.
More land is farmed in this state than in any other state.
What is Texas?
500
This line is located at 23 degrees, 30 minutes South latitude and marks where the sun is directly overhead at 12:00 noon on the Summer equinox (June 21st).