Worksheet: North American Features Name



Worksheet: North American Features Name: ________________________________________________________________________

Pgs 50-51

1. What capital city is at 45 degrees north and 75 degrees west?

2. What capital city is at 65 degrees north and 22 degrees west?

3. What capital city is at 65 degrees north and 51 degrees west?

4. What capital city is at 39 degrees north and 75 degrees west?

5. What capital city is at 15 degrees north and 92 degrees west?

6. What are the coordinates (Latitude/Logitude) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic?

7. What are the coordinates (Lat/Long) of San Juan, Puerto Rico?

8. What are the coordinates (Lat/Long) of Havana, Cuba?

9. What are the coodinates (Lat/Long) of Bogota, Colombia?

10. What capital city runs within a degree of the Tropic of Cancer?

11. What are the coordinates (Lat/Long) of Attu Island?

12. What are the coordinates (Lat/Long) of St. Mathew Island?

13. What are the coordinates (Lat/Long) of New Orleans?

Using the scale on the side of the map – answer the following questions:

14. What is the distance from Atlanta to Dallas?

15. What is the distance from Orlando to Lexington?

16. What is the distance from San Diego to Jacksonville?

17. What is the distance from Baltimore to Des Moines?

18. What is the distances from Moose Jaw to Portland?

19. What is the distance from Anchorage to Nome?

Bonus: What is the significance of this trip?

20. What is the distance from New Orleans to San Antonio?

Use pages 52-53 & 58-59

21. What are the coordinates of the Black Hills?

22. What are the coordinates of the Isle of Youth?

23. What are the coordinates of Somerset Island?

24. What are the coordinates of the Wichita Mountains?

25. What are the coordinates of Mount Washington?

26. How many gulfs are in the United States and what are their names?

27. What is the total distance of the Appalachia Mountains?

28. What desert is in southern California?

29. How many bays are in the United States and what are their names?

30. What is the lowest point in North America?

Use the side bar on page 53

31. What is the lowest recorded temperature in North America?

32. What is the highest recorded temperature in North America?

33. What are the three largest rivers of North America?

34. What are the three largest mountains of North America?

35. What are the three largest lakes of North America?

Use pages 54-55

36. What areas of the U.S. have large coal deposits? (Hint: there are three areas)

37. What kind of industry rules the U.S. economy?

38. What geographic region (ie. Mid west) has the highest population density in the U.S.?

39. Where are most of the volcano eruptions in North America?

Bonus: Why is this so?

40. Where are most of the earthquakes in North America?

Bonus: Why is this so?

Use Page 64

41. What are the ten most populous states?

42. What are the ten least populous states?

Use Page 49

43. What oceans surround North America?

44. What is meant by the following quote: “Though humans have peopled the continent for perhaps as long as 40,000 years, political boundaries were unknown there until some 400 years ago when European settlers imprinted the land with their ideas of ownership.” Explain this quote in roughly 50 words.

45. Explain why North America is one of the world’s economic power houses in 50 words.

46. Explain the average energy use of a North America citizen.

47. According to the reading, why are people living south of the United States moving North?

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