States
What is the biggest city in New England?
A. Salt Lake City
B. Los Angeles
C. Boston
D. Denver
What is Boston
What is Old Faithful?
What is a geyser
In which hemisphere is the United States?
a. Eastern
b. American
c. Southern
d. Western
What is Western
What is the first thing that many immigrants see when they come to New York City?
a. the mayor
b.Statue of Liberty
c. Golden Gate Bridge
d. The capitol
What is the Statue of Liberty
Which state is not part of New England?
A. Massachusetts
B. Rhode Island
C. New Hampshire
D. Virginia
What is Virginia
What nickname was given to the Great Plains because so much wheat is grown there?
a.America's Breadbasket
b.The Great Plains
c.The Fiber Belt
d.Wheatsville
What is America's Breadbasket
Which body of water is located south of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico?
a. the Chesapeake Bay
b. the Pacific Ocean
c. the Atlantic Ocean
d. the Caribbean Sea
What is the Caribbean Sea
How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?
What is they came from erupting volcanoes
How many islands make up the state of Hawaii?
What is more than one hundred
Which is the only mainland American city that isn’t in a state?
A. Washington, D.C.
B. Honolulu
C. Anchorage
D. Miami
What is Washington, D.C.
What is a tornado?
What is a funnel-shaped cloud containing high winds
The state of Florida is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the _________on the other.
What is Gulf of Mexico
Which best describes the climate of New England?
a. constant rain
b. four different seasons
c. four similar seasons
d. cool spring and summer, humid winter
What is four different seasons
What is the approximate distance across the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
a. three thousand miles
b. five hundred miles
c. thirty thousand miles
d. one thousand miles
What is three thousand miles
What states were once part of Mexico?
What is California, New Mexico, Arizona
What is the Grand Canyon?
What is a gorge
Chicago is located on the shore of which great lake?
Which two states receive the most rain?
What is Oregon and Washington.
What nickname was given to the Great Plains because so much wheat is grown there?
A. America’s Breadbasket
B. The Great Plains
C. The fiber belt
D. Wheatsville
What is America’s breadbasket
Match the following states with their capitals.
1. Massachusetts a. Sacremento
2. California b. Springfield
3. Illinois c. Boston
4. New York d. Austin
5. Texas e. Albany
6. Georgia f. Topeka
7. Kansas g. Phoenix
8. Arizona h. Atlanta
What is 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. E 5. D 6. H 7. F 8. G
Match the vocabulary words to their definition
1.Gorge a.things in nature useful to human
2.Gulf Stream b.native to a region
3.Bay c.part of sea that extends into land
4.Mine d.buying and selling of goods
5.Erosion e.dig into earth to search for minerals
6.Commerce f.a warm ocean current
7.Indigenous g.the carrying away of soil and rock
8.Natural Resource h.a steep, narrow canyon
What is
1. h
2. f
3. c
4. e
5. g
6. d
7. b
8. a
Name the 5 great lakes
What is Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior
New England
Mid-Atlantic
South
Midwest
Great Plains
Rocky Mountain
Southwest
West Coast
Alaska
Hawaii
What is fishing, tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, agriculture, mining, cattle, logging, fishing, and tourism
What is the name of the sculpture with the face of four presidents carved into a cliff? Who are the four presidents?
What is Mount Rushmore? Who is George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.