Name: _________________________ Date: _________

Geography #19

Please write your answers in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1) San Diego is in what part of California?

2) How many capital cities are found on a map of the United States?

3) What state is divided in two by a lake?

4) What countries border Mexico to the north and south?

5) What two countries are bordered by all three of these oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Arctic?

6) What is a bay?

7) You are in Chicago, IL. If you travel only 500 miles a day, which of these would be farthest you could reach in one day: Dallas, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri; or Omaha, Nebraska?

8) Is Minneapolis or St. Paul the capital of Minnesota? Why might people be confused about this?

Name: _________________________ Date: _________

Geography #20

Please write your answers in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1) The Panama Canal connects what two bodies of water?

2) What group of small islands forms the long “tail” of Alaska?

3) Which continent has the larger land area, South America or Africa?

4) Name a capital city in South America that is NOT on a coast.

5) The Arctic Ocean touches what three continents?

6) What body of water separates the narrow peninsula of western Mexico from mainland Mexico?

7) What part of a map will usually tell you about the direction?

8) What is the capital of Honduras?