<p>SOCIAL STUDIES 8H MAP WORK</p><p>PHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP QUESTIONS</p><p>1. In which ocean is the only island state located?</p><p>2. What ocean lies east of the United States?</p><p>3. What is the large body of water west of Florida that is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean?</p><p>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?</p><p>5. What body of water lies at 41 degrees north latitude and 120 degrees west longitude?</p><p>6. What bay is located just east of the nation’s capital?</p><p>7. What is the longest bay in California?</p><p>8. What river empties into New York Harbor?</p><p>9. What is the largest river, by volume, in the United States?</p><p>10. What is the river west of the Appalachians that forms a border between Indiana and Kentucky?</p><p>11. What is the name of the river that forms the border between Iowa and Nebraska?</p><p>12. What is the major river that flows through the Grand Canyon?</p><p>13. What is the name of the river that forms a border between Mexico and the United States?</p><p>14. What river runs east from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean?</p><p>15. What river forms part of the border between two northwestern states and flows into the Pacific Ocean?</p><p>16. What is the huge expanse of flatlands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River?</p><p>17. What extensive flatlands cover most of Nevada and are nearly surrounded by mountains?</p><p>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?</p><p>19. What flatlands circle the northern and western coastline of the Gulf of Mexico?</p><p>20. What flatlands extend south from the Chesapeake Bay to the east coast of Florida?</p><p>21. What flatlands in California lie between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range?</p><p>22. What is the main mountain chain that runs through the eastern United States?</p><p>23. What is the main mountain range west of the Great Plains? 24. What is the mountain range that separates California from Nevada?</p><p>25. What is the tallest mountain in the United States?</p><p>26. What is the tallest mountain in California?</p><p>27. What is the tallest mountain range in Oregon and Washington?</p><p>28. What mountains run along California’s coastline?</p><p>29. From the top of which mountain range in the United States could you see the Arctic Ocean?</p><p>30. What volcano dominates the southern portion of the island of Hawaii?</p><p>31. What volcano’s eruption on May 18, 1980 shocked the continental United States?</p><p>32. What is the name of the sleeping volcano found in northern California?</p><p>33. What is the primary natural resource of the following states:</p><p> California: West Virginia: Alaska: Iowa: Vermont:</p><p>34. During colonial times, what products were sent home to Europe that were found on the eastern seaboard? Name 5.</p><p>35. What billion dollar industry can be found on the Oxnard Plain?</p>
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