Landforms and Climate
This mountain range is the largest and highest in the United States.
Options: Appalachian Mts. or Rocky Mts.
What is the Rocky mountains?
Martha's Vineyard is in this state, whose capital is Boston.
Options: Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Vermont
What is Massachusetts?
This region of extremes is the by far the largest region in the United States.
Options: West, East, Gulf of Mexico
What is the West?
This is the Northernmost Ocean in the world.
Options: Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This VERY large canyon lies in the southwestern United States.
Options: Palisades or Grand Canyon
What is the Grand Canyon?
These large bodies of fresh water have a big impact on the climate of the upper Midwest.
Options: Hudson Bay or Great Lakes
What are the Great Lakes?
This city is Massachusetts's largest, AND its capital.
Options: NYC, Plymouth, or Boston
What is Boston?
The "longest hiking only trail" in the world passes through these mountains in the Southeastern and Northeastern US.
Options: Appalachian Mts. or Smokey Mts.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This state has the largest land area in the US.
Options: Texas, California, or Alaska
What is Alaska?
This region, which shares the longest border with Mexico, has more desert than any other.
Options: NE, NW, SE, SW
What is the Southwest?
This largest continent borders Europe and Africa.
Options: Asian or Africa
What is Asia?
This state is home to Kennedy Space Center, Everglades National Park, and the city of Orlando. It was once a Spanish territory, and home to the Seminole nation.
Options: Alabama, Louisiana, or Florida
What is Florida?
This longest river in North America feeds into the Mississippi.
Options: Hudson River or Missouri River
What is the Missouri River?
This city, which is in NOT technically in a state, is the capital of the United States
Options: Trenton or Washington DC
What is Washington, DC?
This wide, flat area lies within parts of the Midwest, West and Southwest. It covers 10 states and has long been considered ideal for large scale farming.
Options: Great Plains or Death Valley
What are the Great Plains?
The Appalachian trail's northern end (terminus) is in this largest New England state.
Options: NJ, Maine, or NY
What is Maine?
Many tourists visit this region just to see the brightly colored Fall leaves.
Options: NE, NW, SE, SW
What is the Northeast
This continent is also its own country, and was once a British colony.
Options: India or Australia
What is Australia?
This largest Canadian city is home to the CN Tower, the tallest building in North America
Options: Buffalo, Quebec, or Toronto
What is Toronto?
This largest Great Lake is is also the largest fresh water lake in the world.
Options: Lake Superior, Lake Erie, or Lake Michigan
What is Lake Superior?
This city, the capital of Mexico, is the second largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Options: Los Angeles or Mexico City
What is Mexico City?
This desert valley, found in the Mojave Desert of California, is the site of the hottest recorded temperature on earth.
Options: Sahara Desert or Death Valley
What is Death Valley?
This mitten-shaped state borders four out of five Great Lakes!
Options: Colorado, Washington, or Michigan
What is Michigan?
This generally warm, humid region is more often hit by hurricanes and tropical storms than are other region.
Options: NE, NW, SE, SW
What is the Southeast?
This coldest continent is independent of any one country.
Options: Alaska, Russia, or Antarctica
What is Antarctica?
This is the largest city in the United States
Options: Philly, Atlanta, NYC
What is New York City?
This river -- whose name literally means "large river" -- comprises the border of Texas and Mexico.
Options: Rio Grande or Rio Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
This sea is home to more than half of all North American countries
Options: Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean Sea
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This Washington Volcano erupted in 1980.
Options: Mt. St. Helens or Zebulon's Peak
What is Mt. St. Helens?
More people live in this Western State than any other in the US. Los Angeles county alone has over 10 million.
Options: Texas, Florida, or California
What is California?
The Mississippi River runs through these two regions.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Options: SE and Midwest or NE and SW
What are the Southeast and Midwest?
This continent -- which borders both the Atlantic and Indian oceans -- has more countries in it than any other.
Options: Asia, Europe, South America, or Africa
What is Africa?
The Northeast has in it one huge urban area called a megalopolis, comprised primarily of four cities. Name two of them.
NO OPTIONS GIVEN
What are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
This Bay -- famous for its crabs -- lies in what is now Maryland and Virginia. The Jamestown settlers entered it to settle upriver.
Options: Chesapeake Bay or Hudson Bay
What is Chesapeake Bay?
This city is the capital of NJ.
Options: Camden, Newark, or Trenton
What is Trenton?