Geography
What is the location of the USA?
The United States of America is located on the continent of North America. The USA is the fourth largest country in the world.
Name the Great Lakes. (H-O-M-E-S)
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
What is the capital city of the USA? Where is it located?
Washington D.C, east coast
East coast of the USA, state New York
Name five states on the east of the USA.
Name the neighbouring states of the USA.
The United States shares borders with Canada in the north and with Mexico in the south. The border with Canada is the world’s longest land border (between two countries).
Name at least three national parks.
Yellowstone (Wyoming), Yosemite (California), Grand Canyon (Arizona), Sequoia n.p. (Sierra Nevada)
What city is associated with movie making industry? What state is it in?
Los Angeles, Hollywood, California
Name five boroughs of the N.Y.
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island
Name at least five states in the south of the USA.
How many united states make the USA? Name at least 10.
There are 50 states that make the USA. 48 of them are located in central North America, and then Alaska is in the north-western part of NA, and Hawaii is in the Pacific, west of California.
Name the mountain ranges in the USA + the highest mountain (what state)?
Rocky mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Sierra Nevada. Denali (Mt. McKinley-6190)-Alaska.
What city is known as a "Sin City"? Why?
Las Vegas, casinos
What are some of the nicknames of the N.Y.?
City that never sleeps, Big Apple, The City of dreams, Concrete Jungle, Empire City
Name at least five states in the west of the USA.
Describe an American flag. What does it symbolize?
There are 13 horizontal stripes, 6 white and 7 red- those represent the original 13 states, in the top left corner, there are 50 white stars on a blue background, representing the 50 states.
What is Death valley known for? What state is it in?
Hottest, driest, lowest national parks. It is a below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes. California.
Name at least five sights that can be found in Washington.
Lincoln//Jefferson Memorial, Washington Obelisk, Vietnam Veterans memorial, Martin Luther King Memorial, White House, Capitol, Pentagon, Supreme Court, Smithsonian Institution, Arlington cemetery
Name five landmarks of the N.Y.
Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central Park, Rockefeller Centre, Times Square, Broadway, Ground Zero museum of 9/11, Brooklyn Bridge
Name at least seven states that border with Canada.
What bodies of water surround the USA? What are the longest rivers.
There is the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Mississippi and Missouri.
What waterfall falls a natural border in the north of the USA?
Niagara falls
Name at least ten big cities of the USA.
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Illinois, Denver, Jacksonville, Seatle, and yes yes yes
Name at least five movies filmed in N.Y.
Choose three states and describe them more in detail.
Good choice, wow what a bright mind!