Map Skills United States Geography World Geography Answer Keys

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1 United States Geography World Geography Answer Keys Inside this resoure you will find a variety of questions designed to reinfore the geography topis and skills that you teah. Eah ativity page features five mind-building geography questions, plus a more diffiult bonus builder question to boost students ritial-thinking and researh skills a total of 240 questions in all! Use the pages in this book in a variety of ways to supplement your soial studies urriulum: For independent pratie, dupliate the pages for students to use as morning work, free-time ativities, or homework. Use the pages as resoures for questions of the day. Make and display a transpareny of eah page, revealing one question eah day for students to answer. At the end of the week, answer and disuss all five questions. Assign that page s bonus builder as weekend homework. For partner or small-group researh, dupliate the desired page and give eah pair or group a opy. For a whole-group ativity, selet the ards that relate to your urrent topi of study. For example, when studying North Ameria, pull all of the ards that relate to Canada, Mexio, Central Ameria, Greenland, the Caribbean Islands, and the United States. For a learning enter ativity, dupliate, laminate, and ut apart the pages. Group the resulting ards by topi and plae speifi ards at a enter. Note: Information ontained in this book is urrent as of November Questions dealing with population statistis are based on the 1990 ensus or on ensus projetions for 2000.

2 What island ountry lies off the southeast oast of India? What was this ountry one alled? What large entral European ountry was two separate ountries from ? (These two ountries were reunited in 1990.) 1 2 Whih U.S. state extends farther west: Virginia or West Virginia? 3 4 Muh of western Australia is made up of. 5 Lines on a globe or map help us loate plaes. Name the imaginary line that a. irles the middle of the earth b. separates one day from the next. marks 0 longitude d. separates the Tropis from the temperate zone in the Southern Hemisphere BONUS #1 Whih of the following world ities are loated in the Tropis? a. Darwin, Australia b. Miami, Florida. Buenos Aires, Argentina d. Honolulu, Hawaii e. Cairo, Egypt f. Beijing, China

3 Earth is a planet of extremes. a. The highest plae on Earth is. b. The lowest plae on Earth s land surfae is.. Both of these plaes are loated on the ontinent of. A tributary is a small river that flows into a larger one. List five tributaries of the Mississippi River. 6 7 Whih ity is farther west: Carson City, Nevada, or San Diego, California? How do you know? Canals are important in helping move goods from one plae to another. Name the loation of eah of the following anals: a. Suez Canal b. Panama Canal. Erie Canal 8 9 The Tennessee Valley Authority brought eletriity, flood ontrol, and better river transportation to many states. When was the TVA reated? List five states that the TVA helped. BONUS #2 Whih of the following Afrian ities are north of the equator? Whih ones are south? a. Casablana b. Dar es Salaam. Dakar d. Lagos e. Algiers f. Johannesburg 4 10

4 Whih of the following states border an oean? e. Florida a. Wyoming f. Maine b. South Carolina g. Minnesota. Alaska h. Idaho d. Iowa i. California Continents are large land masses. a. Whih ontinent has the largest land area? b. Whih ontinent has the largest population?. Whih ontinent has no permanent population? The imaginary line halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole is the. The imaginary line loated at 66.5 north latitude is the. a. Whih line is Hawaii nearer? b. Whih line is Alaska nearer? Whih ontinents are loated entirely in the Southern Hemisphere? A map and a globe are both important to geographers. List two ways maps and globes are similar. List two ways they are different. BONUS #3 The mouth of a river is the plae where a river flows into a larger body of water. Into whih body of water does eah of the following rivers flow? a. Nile River b. Murray River. Amazon River d. Ganges River e. Seine River N W E S 15

5 The United States and Canada share the longest undefended border in the world. List five Canadian provines that border the United States. a. Use a map to help you identify these European ountries. Then list them in order from largest to smallest.. b. d. GULF OF MEXICO 6 In whih diretion would you travel if you flew from Chiago to eah of the following ities? a. San Franiso b. Philadelphia. New Orleans What map element did you use to help you? A waterfall is a magnifient sight! Where is eah of the following waterfalls loated? a. Niagara Falls b. Angel Falls. Vitoria Falls List the five U.S. states that border the Gulf of Mexio. BONUS #4 Some ountries are islands. List an island ountry that is part of eah of the following ontinents: a. Europe b. Asia. Afria

6 A map s sale tells you the relationship between the real distane on the earth and the distane on the map. Below are some measurements made on a map. Use the sale to find the real distanes on the earth. a. 2 inhes = miles b. 5 inhes = miles. 1 / 2 inh = miles d. 3 1 / 2 inhes = miles Sale 1 inh = 40 miles Sandinavia refers to three European ountries. What are they? What kind of area is warm all year long, usually with long periods of heavy rainfall? (Hint: The Amazon River Basin inludes an example.) 25 What speial symbol is often used to show a national apital on a map? Whih of the following European ities are not national apitals? a. Barelona b. Lisbon. Marseille Whih of the following ountries are not loated along the equator? a. Brazil b. Paraguay. Angola d. Kenya e. Indonesia f. Japan BONUS #5 Symbols help us use maps. What map feature does eah symbol below usually stand for? a. b. d. Rotterdam e. Brussels f. Oslo. d.