Where Am I?
Historical Background
Mountains
Wild Card
Rivers & Lakes
100

The lowest, driest, and hottest place in North America (bonus: name the desert in which it is found)

What is Death Valley? (Mojave Desert)

100

Oldest civilization in North America

What is the Mayan civilization?

100

Highest peak in North America

What is Mt. McKinley (or Mt. Denali)

100

The body of water that serves as a major trade route for the northern US and Canada to/from the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean.

What is the St. Lawrence River or St. Lawrence Seaway?

100

The largest lake in the World

What is Lake Superior?

200

Body of Water that used to be a land bridge between Asia and North America

What is the Bering Strait?

200

Countries which colonized the United States (name all three)

What are Great Britain, Spain, and France?

200

The shorter of the two major mountain ranges in the United States (bonus: name of the taller range as well)

What are the Appalachian Mountains? (The Rockies are the tallest)
200

Home of the Saguaro Cacti

What is the Sonoran Desert?

200

River forming the border between the US and Mexico

What is the Rio Grande?

300

The world's second largest bay

What is the Hudson Bay?

300

Explorer who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico

Who was Hernan Cortez?

300

Mountain range that runs through Washington and Oregon

What are the Cascades?

300

Heritage of Quebec

What is French?

300

The river that flows into the Gulf of California

What is the Colorado River?

400

The strip of Mexican land that juts out into the Gulf of Mexico

What is the Yucatan Peninsula?

400

Canada received independence from this country in 1867, but still recognizes its monarch as the symbolic head of state.

What is Great Britain?

400

Mountains that run down nearly the entire length of Mexico

What is the Sierra Madre?

400

Canadian Province which contains some of the richest oil reserves in the world.

What is Alberta?

400

The two Great Lakes connected by the Niagara River and Niagara Falls

What are Lake Ontario and Lake Erie?

500

The ancient capital city of the Aztecs, buried under Mexico City

What is Tenochtitlan?

500

Person from whom much of the midwestern territory of the United States was purchased to help fund the wars he was waging across Europe.

Who was Napoleon?

500

The dividing boundary in the US between the rivers that flow west to empty into the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and those that flow east and empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the Hudson Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico

What is the Continental Divide?

500
The name given to people of mixed Mexican and Spanish descent

What were the mestizos?

500

Large area of ancient bedrock dotted with thousands of small lakes forming a horseshoe around the Hudson Bay

What is the Canadian Shield?