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U. S. Landmarks
Map Terms
U.S. Geography
Landforms
American History
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The monument built to honor the sixteenth president.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
100
The line of latitude which divides the north and the south hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
100
The longest river in the United States?
What is the Mississippi River?
100
A large area of flat or gently sloping land.
What is a plain?
100
The first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
200
The famous five-sided government building.
What is the Pentagon?
200
The four main directions of a compass rose - N, E, S, and W.
What are Cardinal directions?
200
The longest mountain range in the United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
A deep valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
200
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
The city where gold is stored.
What is Fort Knox?
300
Imaginery lines on a map or globe that measure the distance North or South from the Equator.
What is latitude?
300
A place in New YOrk Harbor where immigrants had to be approved before entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
300
An area of flat land that is higher than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
300
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
400
The line from which all other lines of longitude are measured.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
The two states not part of mainland United States.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
400
a low, bowl-shaped area of land that is almost completely surrounded by land.
What is a basin?
400
A slave who escaped and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, returning to the South 19 times.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
The racetrack where the entucky Derby is held each year.
What is Churchill Downs?
500
The relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance.
What is a scale?
500
The place in Pennsylvania where Washington's troops spent a long harsh winter.
What is Valley Forge?
500
Part of an ocean, sea, or lake that cuts deeply into the land.
What is a bay?
500
Lansing is the capital of Michigan, but it hasn't always been. This city was named the original capital.
What is Detroit?