USA & Canada Random Questions!
USA & Canada Political Geography
Landforms and Bodies of Water
USA Regions
USA & Canada Vocabulary
More Geography
100
The USA has this many states.
What is 50?
100
The smallest state in the USA.
What is Rhode Island?
100
This vast landform/biome of grasslands and prairies is located in the midwestern and western regions. The American Buffalo lives here.
What is the Great Plains?
100
The definition of this word is: an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics.
What is a region?
100
Materials from the Earth that humans use, such as iron, timber, stone, water, oil etc.
What are natural resources?
100
These are the seven continents - you have 30 seconds to list them!
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica?
200
Out of the USA or Canada, this country has A LOT more people.
What is the USA?
200
The Capital of the USA, where the USA Government make and enforces laws.
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
The biggest mountain range in North America. It is more than 3,000 miles long and it goes through the Western Region of the USA and much of Canada and even Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
200
The USA has ____ regions.
What is five?
200
A city and its surroundings with a high population density. It is usually located on a river, coastline or other body of water.
What is an urban area?
200
These are the five oceans - you have 30 seconds to list them!
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
300
The USA and Canada have this type of government.
What is a democracy? (I will accept republic as well)
300
The name of the two states which are not part of the contiguous (mainland) USA.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
300
This landmark, located in Arizona, is 271 miles long. It was formed by the Colorado River over millions of years.
What is the Grand Canyon?
300
This region is includes the New England and Mid Atlantic states.
What is the Northeast Region?
300
The name for a person who leaves their country to move to another country. There are many of them that move to the USA & Canada.
What are immigrants?
300
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest are not cardinal directions, but _____________ directions.
What is intermediate?
400
The USA and Canada are the two biggest countries in North America. This country is the third biggest, and is south of the USA.
What is Mexico?
400
Canada does not separate its country into states. Instead, it has this name for them.
What are provinces?
400
These 5 big bodies of fresh water are located in the Midwest Region of the USA. They border (touch) both Canada and the USA.
What are the Great Lakes?
400
This region has twelve states, including Hawaii and Alaska.
What is the West/Western Region?
400
The USA & Canada are very diverse. They have a lot of different people that have different religions, races, and speak different languages. These countries have many __________.
What are cultures?
400
The line of latitude that separates the Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
500
Canada has this many provinces/territories.
What is thirteen?
500
There are 3 cities in the USA & Canada with more than 8 million people, list at least 2 of them!
What are Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago?
500
This huge landform in the Western Region is shaped like a big bowl. It is in between the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountain Ranges.
What is the Great Basin?
500
This region is warm and dry. Its biomes consist largely of dry deserts and grasslands. It only has four states.
What is the Southwest Region?
500
The study of how people meet their wants and needs.
What is economics?
500
Governments usually have this written document which outlines how it runs and how it makes the rules and laws of the country.
What is a constitution?