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What mountain range is the largest in North America and home of the Continental Divide?
Rocky Mountain Range
100
What is the longest river in the US?
Missouri River
100
What is the US' deepest lake?
Crater Lake in Oregon
100
Ocean to the West of the US
Pacific
100
Water flows from four Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie) into the Niagara River at this point
Niagara Falls
100
What mountain has the highest wind speeds on earth?
Mount Washington in New Hampshire
100
What is the name of the large reef system off the coast of Florida?
Florida Reef (Florida Keys Reef Tract)
200
What mountain range is the major mountain range in the eastern US that terminates in Maine?
Appalachian Mountain Range
200
What river carved out the Grand Canyon and is dammed by the Hoover Dam
Colorado River
200
What is the largest saltwater lake?
The Great Salt Lake, UT is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, covering more area than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
200
THe Mississippi empties into what body of water?
Gulf of Mexico
200
Located in the midwest, its a great expansive farmland that makes the area known as the nation's breadbasket
THe Great Plains
200
The Appalachian Trail goes over 2,000 miles and goes from which states?
Georgia to Maine
200
Which state is home to the Everglades National Park with the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere ?
Florida
300
What mountain range is made of volcanoes and lies on the Ring of Fire?
Cascade Mountain Range
300
Oldest River in the US?
Susquehanna River, flowing through Pennsylvania and Maryland, is considered one of the oldest in the world, with some parts dating back over 300 million years.
300
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
300
What ocean is to the east of the US?
Atlantic Ocean
300
WHere is the world's only temperate rain forest?
Pacific Northwest
300
What is a Northeaster?
A Northeaster is a snowstorm that can bring over a foot of snow at one time.
300
Which river flows through New York City?
Hudson River
400
What is the tallest Mountain in the US?
Mount Denali (formerly Mt McKinley) in Alaska at 20,300 ft
400
What river borders the US and Mexico?
Rio Grande
400
What is the largest lake in the US?
Lake Superior
400
What state is known as the Land of 1000 lakes?
Minnesota
400
Largest state?
Alaska
400
What is the largest city in the US?
New York City
400
What is the name of the largest bay in the United States?
Chesapeake Bay- runs from Maryland to Virginia Beach
500
What Mountain exploded in Washington State in the 1980s?
Mt St Helens
500
What river borders Oregon and Washington?
Columbia River
500
state with the most lakes
Alaska (3000 lakes)
500
What is the lowest point in the US?
Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California at -282 ft below sea level
500
Smallest state?
Rhode Island
500
What is the largest state in the "lower 48?"
Texas
500
This state is known as the "Bay State" and the Pilgrims landed in Cape Cod Bay that is in this state.
Massachusetts
600
Highest mountain in the contiguous US
Mt Whitney in CA at 14505 ft
600
There is 1 river in the US that can flow to either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean
North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest
600
What is the Great Lakes State?
Michigan
600
What 4 states meet together to form the "4 Corners?"
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
600
What river forms part of the border between New York State and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
St Lawrence River
600
What is the name of the major fault line in California where the majority of the serious earthquakes happen?
San Andreas fault line
600
What granite mountain was named by the Penobscot people as "the Great Mountain?"
Mount Katahdin
700
What state is fully in a mountain range? It is known as the Mountain State because of it?
West Virginia (completely within the Appalachian Range)
700
This river drains over 40% of the continental U.S. river systems into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mississippi River
700
These lakes were formed by glaciers and look like fingers. They are located in upstate NY.
the fingerlakes
700
Where is the Grand Canyon?
Arizona
700
What manmade canal in NY, covering 363 miles when completed in 1825, connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
The Erie Canal
700
Which U.S. state is home to the Badlands?
South Dakota
700
What state has the most 14ers?
Colorado