US GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS AND LAKES    Name ___________________

ALSO upcoming dates on quizzes                   Period ____  Map due FRIDAY

 

Please locate, label and color the US Geographic Regions and Lakes on the map provided.  Information and games to help learn names and locations of states, regions, and capitals can be found on the following website:   http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Great Lakes                               Lake Champlain

Lake Ontario                             Lake Okeechobee

Lake Erie                                  Lake St. Clair

Lake Huron                                Lake of the Woods

Lake Michigan                            Great Salt Lake

Lake Superior

Name and color the US Geographic Regions:

Atlantic Plain                                       Intermontane Plateau

Interior Highlands                               Laurentian Uplands

Interior Plain                                      Rocky Mountain System

Hawaiian Islands                                  Appalachian Highlands

Aleutian Islands                                   Alaska Bush

Alaskan Panhandle                                Alaskan Interior

South-Central Alaska

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IMPORTANT!!!!!!

Practice worksheets were handed out Tuesday, September 4th:

QUIZ NEXT TUESDAY 9/11 on the fifty US states, two-letter abbreviation and the location AND capitals of the (6) New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) and (5) Middle Atlantic states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland.  SPELLING COUNTS!

QUIZ NEXT THURSDAY 9/13 will be on the Southeastern area of the US.  This area map includes the (12) states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Caroline, Virginia, and West Virginia.  STUDY THE LOCATION AND CAPITALS OF EACH…SPELLING COUNTS!

QUIZ TUESDAY 8/18 will be on the Midwest & Great Plains area of the US. This area map includes the (12) states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.  STUDY THE LOCATION AND CAPITALS OF EACH…SPELLING COUNTS!

QUIZ THURSDAY 8/20 will be on the Southwest, Mountain West and Pacific West states.  These maps include the (15) states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma in the Southwest, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in the Mountain West, and Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, and California in the Pacific West. 

STUDY THE LOCATION AND CAPITALS OF EACH…SPELLING COUNTS!