American Geography Flashcards

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New Mexico city in Bernalillo County

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What is Albuquerque?

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2
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The Queen City

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What is Cincinatti?

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3
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City named for a capital on ancient Egypt

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What is Memphis?

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4
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Metro areas for these cities in Texas are called the Metroplex

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What are Dallas and Fort Worth?

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5
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Highest mountain in Oregon

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What is Mount Hood?

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6
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Fargo, ND is in the valley of this river

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What is the Red River of the North?

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7
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Resting place of Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Where is Staten Island?

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8
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NYC Borough containing Howard Beach, and resting place of John Gotti

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Where is Queens?

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9
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City with Ghiradelli Square

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What is San Francisco?

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10
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Donner Pass crosses this California range

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What is the Sierra Nevada?

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11
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River that Billings, Montana is on

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What is the Yellowstone?

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12
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Victorville, CA and Boulder City, NV are in this desert

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What is the Mojave?

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13
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Kanmon Tunnel connects these two islands

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What are Kyushu and Honshu?

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14
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Main Japanese island

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What is Honshu?

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15
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Name for locks between lakes Superior and Huron

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What are the Sault ([Sue]) St. Marie locks?

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16
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5 great lakes

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What are Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario?

17
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State flower of Alaska

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What is forget me not?

18
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Main daily newspaper in Austin, TX

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What is The American Statesman?

19
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Major daily newspaper in Cleveland

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What is the Plain Dealer?

20
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HQ of The Industrial Workers of the World: this state, not far from the Haymarket Memorial

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What is Illinois?

21
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Created at its Toll House Restaurant, the chocolate chip cookie is this state’s official state cookie

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What is Massachusetts?

22
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The Green River in this state offers fine fishing but sadly also gave its name to a serial killer

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What is Washington?

23
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East of Topeka, I-70 runs across a state line through two contiguous cities with this name

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What is Kansas City?

24
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This former mining town founded in 1859 is home to the Colorado Railroad Museum & a famous brewery

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What is Golden?

25
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Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling Mecca after legalization widened in 1931

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What is Reno?

26
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Bonners Ferry, north of Coeur d’Alene, calls itself this state’s “most friendly town”

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What is Idaho?

27
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You can buy Belly Flops, rejects from this company, at its factory candy store in Fairfield, California

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What is Jelly Belly?

28
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You can buy a single flavor of these sticky but cute predators at the Albanese candy store near Chicago

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What are gummy bears?

29
Q

Home of the Goo-Goo Cluster

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What is Nashville, TN?

30
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In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for an arch to mark the North Entrance to this national park

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What is Yellowstone?