Physiographic Features of the United States and Canada-

  1. Find the feature that is being described.
  2. Write the answer on your answer sheet.
  3. After you have traced or sketched a map of the region, write the number where the feature is located. Draw the feature if necessary.
  4. Begin studying these features, you will be responsible for recognizing them.
  1. In which ocean is the only island state located?Pacific
  2. What ocean lies east of the United States?Atlantic
  3. What is the large body of water west of Florida that is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean?Gulf of Mexico
  4. What are the five bodies of fresh water that form a border between the United States and Canada? What one name is used to describe all five bodies of water?
  5. What body of water lies at 41’ north latitude and 112’west longitude?
  6. What bay is located just east of our nation’s capital?
  7. What is the largest bay in California?
  8. What river empties into New York CityHarbor?
  9. What is the largest river by volume in the United States?
  10. What is the river west of the Appalachians that forms a border between Indiana and Kentucky?
  11. What is the name of the river that forms the border between Iowa and Nebraska?
  12. What is the major river that flows through the Grand Canyon?
  13. What is the name of the river that forms a border between Mexico ands the United States?
  14. What river runs east from LakeOntario to the Atlantic Ocean?
  15. What river forms part of the border between two north western states and flows into the Pacific Ocean?
  16. What is the huge expanse of flatlands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River?
  17. What extensive flatlands cover most of Nevada and are nearly surrounded by mountains?
  18. What is the name of the landform north of 40’N that juts out into the Atlantic like a giant fish hook?
  19. What flatlands circle the northern and western coastline of the Gulf of Mexico?
  20. What flatlands extend south from Chesapeake Bay to the east coast of Florida?
  21. What flatlands in California lie between the Sierra Nevada and the CoastRange?
  22. What is the main mountain chain that runs through the eastern United States?
  23. What is the first mountain range west of the Great Plains?
  24. What is the mountain range that separates California and Nevada?
  25. What is the tallest mountain in Alaska?
  26. What is the highest mountain in California?
  27. What is the tallest mountain range in Oregon and Washington?
  28. What mountains run along California’s coastline?
  29. From the top of which mountain range in the United States could you see the Arctic Ocean?
  30. What volcano dominates the southern portion of the Hawaiian archipelago?
  31. What is the highest mountain in Canada?
  32. What large body of water is a major feature between 50’N and the Arctic Circle?
  33. What are three major features of the central and western United States stretch north into Canada?
  34. What is the massive rock formation that forms a “shield” around the Hudson Bay?
  35. What major lake is located north of 50’N and east of 100’W?