American Geography Flashcards
New Mexico city in Bernalillo County
What is Albuquerque?
The Queen City
What is Cincinatti?
City named for a capital on ancient Egypt
What is Memphis?
Metro areas for these cities in Texas are called the Metroplex
What are Dallas and Fort Worth?
Highest mountain in Oregon
What is Mount Hood?
Fargo, ND is in the valley of this river
What is the Red River of the North?
Resting place of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Where is Staten Island?
NYC Borough containing Howard Beach, and resting place of John Gotti
Where is Queens?
City with Ghiradelli Square
What is San Francisco?
Donner Pass crosses this California range
What is the Sierra Nevada?
River that Billings, Montana is on
What is the Yellowstone?
Victorville, CA and Boulder City, NV are in this desert
What is the Mojave?
Kanmon Tunnel connects these two islands
What are Kyushu and Honshu?
Main Japanese island
What is Honshu?
Name for locks between lakes Superior and Huron
What are the Sault ([Sue]) St. Marie locks?
5 great lakes
What are Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario?
State flower of Alaska
What is forget me not?
Main daily newspaper in Austin, TX
What is The American Statesman?
Major daily newspaper in Cleveland
What is the Plain Dealer?
HQ of The Industrial Workers of the World: this state, not far from the Haymarket Memorial
What is Illinois?
Created at its Toll House Restaurant, the chocolate chip cookie is this state’s official state cookie
What is Massachusetts?
The Green River in this state offers fine fishing but sadly also gave its name to a serial killer
What is Washington?
East of Topeka, I-70 runs across a state line through two contiguous cities with this name
What is Kansas City?
This former mining town founded in 1859 is home to the Colorado Railroad Museum & a famous brewery
What is Golden?
Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling Mecca after legalization widened in 1931
What is Reno?
Bonners Ferry, north of Coeur d’Alene, calls itself this state’s “most friendly town”
What is Idaho?
You can buy Belly Flops, rejects from this company, at its factory candy store in Fairfield, California
What is Jelly Belly?
You can buy a single flavor of these sticky but cute predators at the Albanese candy store near Chicago
What are gummy bears?
Home of the Goo-Goo Cluster
What is Nashville, TN?
In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for an arch to mark the North Entrance to this national park
What is Yellowstone?
