SOCIAL STUDIES 8H UNITED STATES HISTORY
Introduction Map Work
DIRECTIONS: Complete the map using the instructions listed below.
1. Using a BLACK pen/pencil label each of the 50 states. No abbreviations.
2. Label the following using a BLACK pen/pencil:
· the Atlantic Ocean
· the Pacific Ocean
· the Gulf of Mexico
3. Label the following using a BROWN pen/pencil:
· the Sierra Nevada Mountains
· the Rocky Mountains
· the Appalachian Mountains
· the Ozark Mountains
4. Label the following using a RED pen/pencil:
· the Great Plains
· the Interior Plains
· the Coastal Plains
· the Great Basin
· the Colorado Plateau
· the Columbia Plateau
· the Mojave Desert
5. Label the following using a BLUE pen/pencil:
· the Colorado River
· the Missouri River
· the Mississippi River
· the Ohio River
· the St. Lawrence River
· the Columbia River
6. Label the following using a BLACK pen/pencil:
· Lake Michigan
· Lake Superior
· Lake Huron
· Lake Ontario
· Lake Erie
· the Great Salt Lake
7. Add a scale and a compass rose.
8. Shade the water a light blue.
9. Lightly shade the states using 6 different colors.
10. Create a key.
SOCIAL STUDIES 8H MAP WORK
PHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP QUESTIONS
1. In which ocean is the only island state located?
2. What ocean lies east of the United States?
3. What is the large body of water west of Florida that is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean?
4. What are the names of the lakes that form a border between the USA and Canada? What one name is
used to describe all five bodies of water?
5. What body of water lies at 41 degrees north latitude and 120 degrees west longitude?
6. What bay is located just east of the nation’s capital?
7. What is the longest bay in California?
8. What river empties into New York Harbor?
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 and the United States?
14. What river runs east from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean?
15. What river forms part of the border between two northwestern 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 degrees north latitude that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean
like a giant fishhook?
19. What flatlands circle the northern and western coastline of the Gulf of Mexico?
20. What flatlands extend south from the Chesapeake Bay to the east coast of Florida?
21. What flatlands in California lie between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range?
22. What is the main mountain chain that runs through the eastern United States?
23. What is the main mountain range west of the Great Plains?
24. What is the mountain range that separates California from Nevada?
25. What is the tallest mountain in the United States?
26. What is the tallest 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 island of Hawaii?
31. What volcano’s eruption on May 18, 1980 shocked the continental United States?
32. What is the name of the sleeping volcano found in northern California?
33. What is the primary natural resource of the following states:
· California:
· West Virginia:
· Alaska:
· Iowa:
· Vermont:
34. During colonial times, what products were sent home to Europe that were found on the eastern
seaboard? Name 5.
35. What billion dollar industry can be found on the Oxnard Plain?