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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
CARMALT - Geography
Question | Answer |
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What state belongs to 3 main regions? | Texas |
What 3 regions does Texas belong to? | West, Midwest, South |
In which region is our nation's capital? | South |
What states make up the Northeast's New England states? | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
What states make up the subregion known as "Rust Belt"? | Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, parts of New York |
How many states make up the Northeast's New England subregion? | six |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Rust Belt"? | eight |
What states make up the subregion known as "Gulf States"? | Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Gulf States"? | five |
What states make up the subregion known as "Southwest"? | Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Southwest"? | four |
What states make up the subregion known as "Great Plains"? | North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Great Plains"? | ten |
What is the economic region that spans the Great Lakes known as? | Rust Belt |
What is the region that is located along the Gulf of Mexico known as? | Gulf States |
Which of the 4 major regions does Alaska belong? | West |
Which states are make up the subregion known as "Pacific Northwest"? | Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Pacific Northwest"? | four |
Which states make up the subregion known as "Pacific States"? | Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii |
How many states make up the subregion known as "Pacific States"? | five |
Which states make up the subregion known as "Rocky Mountain States"? | Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, sometimes Arizona and New Mexico |
Which states make up the "Four Corners"? | Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah |
What are "Contiguous States"? | 48 adjoining states, aka: "lower 48" |
In what state is the geographic center of all 50 states? | 20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota |
What subregion is vast grassland important for growing grain, raising cattle, and mining? | Great Plains |
In what state is the geographic center of the lower 48 states? | Lebanon, Kansas |
The Rust Belt states are also known as what name that recognizes their locations to the Great Lakes? | Great Lake States |
What states are known as the Mid-Atlantic States or Middle Atlantic States? | New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania |
How many states make up the Mid-Atlantic states? | five |
In 1767, what formed the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland and was later used to divide free states and slave states? | Mason-Dixon Line |
What states make up the Southeast subregion? | Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida |
What states make up the South Atlantic States? These states border the Atlantic Ocean. | Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware |
Which Mid-Atlantic states does not border the Atlantic Ocean? | Pennsylvania |
What do the Gulf States have in common? | border Gulf of Mexco |
Washington, D.C. is not a state. What is it? | federal district or city |
Which U.S. states are not part of the contiguous states? | Hawaii and Alaska |
What is the name of the only place in the US where boundaries of four states come together? | Four Corners |
Great Plains is subregion important for which major economic activities? | grain, cattle, mining |
What is the only state that is not part of the continental North America? | Hawaii |
Census Bureau divides the US into what 4 main regions? | West, Midwest, Northeast, South |