Landforms
What two landforms are shared by both the United States and Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains?
What is the name of the river system that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic?
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway
In what subregion did the 13 original colonies reside?
What is the Mid-Atlantic.
What type of map shows cities, capitals, states, countries, and continents.
What is a political map?
This is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
What kind of landform runs north and south through Central America?
What are Mountains.
What waterway separates the United States into East and West?
What is the Mississippi River.
In what region does the state of Texas reside?
What is the Southwest.
This type of map shows you mountains, lakes, rivers, deserts, etc.
What is a physical map?
This is the hemisphere that the U.S. is in.
What is the northwestern hemisphere?
What is the name of the mountain range that borders the west coast of Mexico?
What is Sierra Madre Occidental.
What body of water borders Mexico, the southeastern United States, and Central America?
What is the Gulf of Mexico.
In consideration of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; which area makes up 2/3 of the region?
What is Mexico.
This part of a map helps you determine what the symbols on a map represent.
What is a key or legend?
These are the 5 Great Lakes.
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior?
Name of the largest island in the Caribbean.
What is Cuba?
In what country contains more fresh water sources than any of the world combined?
What is Canada.
In what region do we live in?
What is the Midwest.
This shows you the orientation of the cardinal directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
What is the name of Mexico's main peninsula?
What is the Yucatan?
The three mountain ranges found in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mtns, Appalachian Mtns, and the Cascades?
In what region do the states border one or more of the Great Lakes?
What is the Midwest?
You would need this type of map if you wanted to know how many people live in New York.
What is a population map?
What waterway runs through Central America and was created by people to make it possible for ships to pass through instead of going all the way around South America?
What is the Panama Canal?