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Geography, featuring waterways & geographic Regions (SOL 2)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which geographic feature is a large inland body of fresh or salt water completely surrounded by land?

a)

Mountain

b)

Lake

c)

Ocean

d)

Tributary

2.

What geographic feature is a relatively flat highland?

a)

plains

b)

peninsula

c)

plateau

d)

gulf

3.

Which two waterways were used to transport farm and industrial products in North America?

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Nile River

c)

Amazon River

d)

Missouri River

4.

Inland port cities in the Midwest grew along what waterway?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Gulf of Mexico

d)

Great Lakes

5.

The ST Lawrence River forms the northeastern border with Canada and connects what two waterways?

a)

Atlantic Ocean & Pacific Ocean

b)

Ohio River & Pacific Ocean

c)

Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean

d)

Great Lakes & Indian Ocean

6.

What waterway is considered the 'gateway to the west?'

a)

Ohio River

b)

Columbia River

c)

Colorado River

d)

Gulf of Mexico

7.

What two European countries used the Gulf of Mexico as a way to explore Mexico and other parts of America?

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

Spain

d)

Portugal

8.

What waterway has its shores along the west coast of the United States?

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Southern Ocean

9.

What waterway forms a border with Mexico?

a)

Columbia River

b)

The Great Lakes

c)

St Lawrence River

d)

Rio Grande River

10.

What waterway was explored by Lewis & Clark for President Thomas Jefferson in the early 1800s?

a)

Gulf of Mexico

b)

Columbia River

c)

Colorado RIver

d)

Great Lakes

11.

What geographic region do we in Chesapeake, VA call home?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Canadian Shield

c)

Coastal Plain

d)

Basin & Range

12.

Check all boxes that apply to the Appalachian Highlands

a)

Old, eroded mountains

b)

Oldest mountain range in North America

c)

Extends from eastern Canada to western Alabama

d)

Borders the Pacific Coast

13.

Wrapped around Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape with hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers describes which geographic region?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Canadian Shield

c)

Coastal Range

d)

Rocky Mountains

14.

The Continental Divide is located in which geographic region?

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Appalachian HIghlands

c)

Interior Lowlands

d)

Coastal Plain

15.

Death Valley is located in the Basin and Range. It is considered the what?

a)

Highest point in North America

b)

Lowest point in North American

c)

Highest point in South America

d)

Most flat area of the Great Plains

16.

What does the Continental Divide do?

a)

Determines how often it will rain

b)

Determines how many people will live in an area

c)

Determines the directional flow of the rivers

d)

Determines how high a mountain will grow

17.

What continent do we live on?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

North America

d)

South America

18.

What ocean do we swim in off of Virginia Beach?

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Indian Ocean

19.

Lines of latitude are also known as what?

a)

Parallels

b)

Meridians

c)

Hemispheres

d)

Axis

20.

A line of longitude runs north and south, but measures east and west

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Heading west out of the Great Plains, what geographic region do you enter?

a)

Coastal Range

b)

Coastal Plain

c)

Appalachian Highlands

d)

Rocky Mountains

22.

Which geographic region is located west of the Appalachian Highlands and east of the Great Plains?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Interior Lowlands

c)

Coastal Range

d)

Coastal Plain

23.

What geographic land feature is surrounded by water on three sides?

a)

island

b)

peninsula

c)

lake

d)

plain

24.

What waterway, located in the southwest portion of the United States, was explored by the Spanish?

a)

Colorado River

b)

St Lawrence River

c)

Columbia River

d)

Great Lakes

25.

A bay is bigger than a gulf

a)

True

b)

False