General Geography Skills
States
Rivers and Oceans
Mountain Ranges
The Five Regions
100
The direction that the mountain ranges in the United States run.
What is North/South?
100
The smallest state in the Union.
What is Rhode Island?
100
The mouth of the Missippi River
What is the Gulf of Mexico
100
Moutain range and runs along the East Coast from Alabama to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Mountain Range?
100
The region that makes up Oregon, Washington and parts of British Columbia.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
200
The average distance across the continental United States
What is approximately 3,000 miles?
200
The largest state in the Union.
What is Alaska?
200
What large lake is located in Utah
What is the Great Salt Lake
200
Largest moutain and goes through AZ,NM,CA,NV,CO,UT,ID
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200
A region within that makes up Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.
What is the Southwest?
300
Name of the directional guide found on the map.
What is the Compass Rose?
300
The state that is a peninsula surrounded by fresh water.
What is Michigan?
300
The state with the longest Atlantic coastline?
What is Florida?
300
The very young mountain range in California that is active and still growing due to shifts in the earth's tectonic plates?
What is the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range?
300
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio are some of the states that make up this region.
What is the Midwest?
400
The lines that form a grid along the map/
What are longitude and latitude lines?
400
One of four states that meet up perfectly at the Four Corners in the American Southwest.
What is UT, AR, NM or CO
400
The lake that falls in between Wisconsin and Michigan.
What is Lake Michigan?
400
Mount Whitney is located in this mountain range.
What is the Sierra Nevadas?
400
New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island make up this region in the US.
What is the Northeast?
500
The most Northern, Western and Eastern state in the United States.
What is Alaska?
500
The number of states within the USA that begin with an O.
What is three? - Oregon, Ohio, Oklahoma...
500
The two major oceans on the East and West coasts in the United States.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
500
The mountain range that runs through Oregon and Washington.
What is the Cascade Mountain Range.
500
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are the states that make up this region.
What is the Southeast?