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PHYSICAL MAP USA
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100

The line that divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

BONUS: What is its line of latitude?

What is the Equator?

BONUS: 0 degrees

100

Area drained by a river and its tributaries.

BONUS: Name of the beginning of a river and the place where it empties into a larger body of water.

What is a watershed?

BONUS: What are the Source and Mouth?

100

Height of the land above sea level.

What is elevation?

100

Prominent city on the Gulf of America.

What is Tampa, FL, Mobile, AL, New Orleans, LA?...

100

States located in then central Great Plains.

What are ND, SD, MN, IA, NE, KS, OK?

200

The cardinal directions on a Compass Rose.

BONUS: The intermediate directions on a compass.

What are north, south, east and west?

BONUS: What are northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest?

200

A manmade structure build to help prevent flooding along a river.  Also often used to generate electricity.

BONUS POINT: A second manmade structure build to prevent flooding.

What are dams?

BONUS: What are levees?

200

Only Great Lake without a Canandian border.

BONUS: The largest city on this Great Lake.

What is Lake Michigan?

BONUS: What is Chicago?

200

River that drains into the Gulf of America.

What is the Mississippi or Mobile or Tombigbee or Alabama?

200

Central Lowlands watershed drains into this river.

What is the Mississippi?


300

Imaginary lines running around the Earth through the North and South Poles. 

What are lines of longitude?

300

Swampy marshland located in southern Florida where wetlands have been protected.

BONUS: Large lake located in this area.

What is the Everglades National Park?

BONUS: What is Lake Okeechobee?

300
Three large mountain regions in the USA

What are Rocky Mtns, Appalachian Mtns, Coastal Ranges, Cascade Ranges, Adirondacks?

300

Largest Bay where the Atlantic Ocean cuts into the Coastal plan.

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

300

Five Great Lakes, from west to east.

BONUS: The two cities at the extreme western end of the lake.

BONUS#2  The river that drains the entire Great Lakes system.

What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario?

BONUS: Superior, WI and Duluth, MN

BONUS #2: St. Lawrence River

400

The line that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

BONUS: City that this line goes through.

What is the prime meridian?

BONUS: What is Greenwich, England.


400

Major city located where the tributaries join the Mississppi River.

BONUS: Two other cities located along the course of the Mississippi River.

What is St. Louis, Missouri?

BONUS: What are Minneapolis, MN, Memphis, TN, Baton Rouge, LA, New Orleans, LA?

400

Area between the Great Plains and the Appalachian Mountains.

What is the Central Lowlands? or What are the Great Lakes?

400

Island chain stretching southwest from the Florida coast.

BONUS: An island in this group.

What are the Florida Keys?

BONUS: What is Key Largo, Long Key, Vaca Key, Marathon Key, Big Pine Key, Boca Chica Key, Key West...?

400

Three large bays on the Great Lakes, and which country they belong to.

BONUS: Name an island found in the Great Lakes.

What are Thunder Bay, Canada; Green Bay, USA; Georgian Bay, Canada; Saginaw Bay, USA

BONUS: What is Isle Royale, Apostle Island, Drummond Island, Beaver Island, Bois Blanc Island, Manitou Islands, Washington Island...?

500

An example of a line of latitude that might run through South America.  

What is (any number between 0-60 degrees S)?

500

Three major tributaries of the Mississippi River.

BONUS x3 : The state where you would find the mouth of each of these rivers. 

What are Missouri, Ohio, and Arkansas Rivers.

BONUS: Missouri: Montana, Ohio: Pennsylvania; Arkansas: Colorado

500

Highest mountains in NC, TN, and VA.

BONUS: Which of these is highest?

What are Mount Mitchell, NC; Clingman's Dome, TN; and Mount Rogers, VA?

BONUS: Mount Mitchell, NC

500

River that forms the border between SC and GA.

BONUS: This river's mouth is located here.

What is the Savannah River?

BONUS: What is Savannah, GA?

500

Lake found between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

BONUS: Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are not separated by a river, but instead by this.

What is Lake St. Clair?

BONUS: What is the Straits of Mackinac?