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US Physical Geography

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the mountain range located on the west side of the United States?
a)
Atlas Mountains
b)
Rocky Mountains
c)
Sierra Madre
d)
Appalachian
2.
What is geographic feature letter B?
a)
Rocky Mountains
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Atlantic Ocean
3.
What is geographic feature letter K?
a)
Rocky Mountains
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Atlantic Ocean
4.
What is geographic feature letter M?
a)
Gulf of Mexico
b)
Mississippi Delta
c)
Lake Ontario
d)
Atlantic Ocean
5.
What is geographic feature letter D?
a)
Ohio River
b)
Mississippi River
c)
Missouri River
d)
Colorado River
6.
What is geographic feature letter L?
a)
Rocky Mountains
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Atlantic Ocean
7.
What is geographic feature letter G?
a)
Lake Superior
b)
Lake Michigan
c)
Lake Erie
d)
Lake Huron
8.

Mountains are an example of a physical feature. What is the largest mountain range in the United States?

a)

The Appalachian Mountains

b)

The Sierra Nevadas

c)

The Rocky Mountains

d)

The Great Plains

9.

Rivers are also a physical feature. What is the largest river in the United States?

a)

The St. Lawrence River

b)

The Mississippi River

c)

The Raisin River

d)

The Ohio River

10.

What is the name of the river that borders the United States and Mexico?

a)

The Rio Grande

b)

The St. Lawrence River

c)

The Detroit River

d)

The Columbia River

11.

What is located at number 7?

a)

Virginia

b)

Virginia Beach

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Chesapeake Bay

12.

Which ocean borders our state, Virginia?

a)

Pacific Ocean

b)

Indian Ocean

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Southern Ocean

13.

What country borders the United States in the NORTH

a)

Mexico

b)

Alaska

c)

Canada

d)

Hawaii

14.

What country borders the United State on the SOUTH?

a)

Canada

b)

Mexico

c)

England

d)

China

15.

What is the capital of the United States?

a)

New York

b)

Washington D.C.

c)

Philadelphia

d)

Seattle

16.

This is a large FLAT area where many crops are grown in the middle most part of the United States.

a)

Great Plains

b)

Central Plains

c)

Gulf Coastal Plains

17.

A large body of water that is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean south of the United States and east of Mexico


a)

Central Valley

b)

Gulf of Mexico

c)

San Francisco Bay

d)

Lake Superior

18.

This is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four Great Lakes are shared by the U.S. and Canada.


a)

Lake Michigan

b)

Lake Erie

c)

Lake Ontario

d)

Lake Huron

19.

The large river that forms a border between the US and Mexico


a)

Brooks Range

b)

Missouri River

c)

Ohio River

d)

Rio Grande

20.

It is the second largest Great Lake by surface area and the fifth largest freshwater lake in the world. It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting the shorelines of its 30,000 islands.


a)

Great Salt Lake

b)

Lake Huron

c)

Lake Michigan

d)

Lake Ontario

21.

This land feature is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.


a)

Great Basin

b)

Cape Cod

c)

Great Plains

d)

Coast Ranges

22.

A system of mountains in the eastern portion of the Unites States from Maine south to Georgia


a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Cascade Mountain Range

c)

Appalachian Mountains

d)

Atlantic Coastal Plain

23.

The largest river by volume in the U.S.

a)

San Francisco Bay

b)

Rio Grande

c)

Missouri River

d)

Mississippi River

24.

A major mountain system in the western portion of the United States and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from northern Canada south to New Mexico


a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Cascade Range

d)

Great Basin

25.

Body of water that lies at 41º north latitude and 112º west longitude


a)

Central Valley

b)

San Francisco Bay

c)

Lake Huron

d)

Great Salt Lake

26.
Which landform/physical feature borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
a)
The Continental Divide
b)
Atlantic Ocean
c)

Coastal Plain

d)
Appalachian Mountain
27.

Which Great Lake is the arrow pointing to?

a)

Lake Superior

b)

Lake Michigan

c)

Lake Erie

d)

Lake Ontario

28.

Which Great Lake is the arrow pointing toward?

a)

Lake Erie

b)

Lake Ontario

c)

Lake Huron

d)

Lake Michigan

29.

Which Great Lake is the arrow pointing toward?

a)

Lake Superior

b)

Lake Huron

c)

Lake Erie

d)

Lake Michigan

30.

The flat areas in the central part of the US that are used for agriculture are known as:

a)

The Great Plains

b)

Rocky Mountains

c)

Pacific Coast Range

d)

Bayou

31.

What's the name of the river # 1 ?

a)

Sacramento

b)

Columbia

c)

Snake

d)

San Joaquin

32.

A mountain range located in Washington, Oregon, and northern California


a)

Cascade Mountain Range

b)

Sierra Nevada Mountains

c)

Appalachian Mountains

d)

Rocky Mountains

33.

The bay that is just east of the nation's capital


a)

San Francisco Bay

b)

New York Harbor

c)

Charleston Bay

d)

Chesapeake Bay

34.

The mountain range that separates California and Nevada


a)

Missouri Mountains

b)

Cascades Range

c)

Rocky Mountains

d)

Sierra Nevada Mountains

35.

The dry area between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada range. It covers most of the state of Nevada


a)

Coast Ranges

b)

Great Plains

c)

Brooks Range

d)

Great Basin