Daily Geography-due Friday, September 11, 2015
Remember to answer in complete sentences for full credit.
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Greenland is considered part of North America. Which country claims Greenland?
What does a star on a map usually mean?
Write the definition of a gulf. Then on a map find the Gulf of Mexico, the world’s largest gulf.
What is the capital of North Dakota, a state admitted to the United States in 1889?
Are east, west, north, and south called the cardinal or ordinal directions?
After a hurricane, much of the sand on one popular New Jersey beach had been washed away
by huge waves. Is this an example of corrosion or erosion?
Does the Mississippi River form the eastern or western boundary of Illinois?
A(n) ____________________________ is a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies
of water.
How many states are there in the contiguous United States? How many states are there in the
entire United States?
Hurricanes are one kind of natural event that can cause people great problems. List at least six
other kinds that you can think of. Explain how one of these events affects people.
Daily Geography-due Friday, September 11, 2015
Remember to answer in complete sentences for full credit.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Greenland is considered part of North America. Which country claims Greenland?
What does a star on a map usually mean?
Write the definition of a gulf. Then on a map find the Gulf of Mexico, the world’s largest gulf.
What is the capital of North Dakota, a state admitted to the United States in 1889?
Are east, west, north, and south called the cardinal or ordinal directions?
After a hurricane, much of the sand on one popular New Jersey beach had been washed away
by huge waves. Is this an example of corrosion or erosion?
Does the Mississippi River form the eastern or western boundary of Illinois?
A(n) ____________________________ is a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies
of water.
How many states are there in the contiguous United States? How many states are there in the
entire United States?
Hurricanes are one kind of natural event that can cause people great problems. List at least six
other kinds that you can think of. Explain how one of these events affects people.
Daily Geography-Honors-due Friday, September 11, 2015
Remember to answer in complete sentences for full credit.
1. Greenland is considered part of North America. Which country claims Greenland?
2. What does a star on a map usually mean?
3. Write the definition of a gulf. Then on a map find the Gulf of Mexico, the world’s largest
gulf.
4. What is the capital of North Dakota, a state admitted to the United States in 1889?
5. Are east, west, north, and south called the cardinal or ordinal directions?
6. After a hurricane, much of the sand on one popular New Jersey beach had been washed
away by huge waves. Is this an example of corrosion or erosion?
7. Does the Mississippi River form the eastern or western boundary of Illinois?
8. A(n) ____________________________ is a narrow body of water connecting two larger
bodies of water.
9. How many states are there in the contiguous United States? How many states are there
in the entire United States?
10. Hurricanes are one kind of natural event that can cause people great problems. List at
least six other kinds that you can think of. Explain how one of these events affects
people.
11. What bodies of water connect Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean?
12. Including Louisiana and Minnesota, there are twenty-four states west of the Mississippi
River. How many states are east of the Mississippi River?
13. The three largest lakes in the world are the Caspian Sea, Lake Superior, and Lake
Victoria. On which continent is each located?
14. What city on the Kansas River is the capital of Kansas?
15. What are some of the challenges of living on an island?