Vocabulary
A piece of land sticking out into a body of water, so that it is almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
A steep, narrow canyon.
What is a gorge?
In which hemisphere is the United States located?
What is the Western Hemisphere?
What is four different seasons?
What is the nickname given to the Great Plains region?
What is "America's Breadbasket"?
A natural physical feature on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
A part of the sea or ocean that extends into land.
What is a bay?
What is the approximate distance of the Continental United States (from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean)?
What is approximately three thousand miles?
What is the biggest city in New England?
What is Boston?
This weather condition that features a funnel-shaped cloud containing high winds occurs often in the mid US regions.
What is a tornado?
To dig into the earth in search of minerals or coal.
What is mine?
The carrying away of soil and rock by water, ice, or wind.
What is erosion?
What is the only mainland American city that is not in a state?
What is Washington D.C.?
What is the first thing many immigrants in New York would see?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This is the name of the sculpture that features the faces of four presidents carved into a cliff.
What is Mount Rushmore?
Native to a particular region or environment.
The buying and selling of goods and services.
What is commerce?
Which American state is the largest in terms of land size?
What is Alaska?
What bodies of water border the peninsula of Florida?
What is the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. (Answer may also include the Caribbean Sea).
This is the name of a famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park.
What is Old Faithful?
Something from nature that is useful to humans.
What is a natural resource?
A warm ocean current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico and travels north along the coast of Florida all the way to Newfoundland in Canada.
Which state contains twenty of the tallest mountains in the United States?
What is Alaska?
What is the capital of Florida?
Chicago is located on the shore of this Great Lake?
What is Lake Michigan?