Social Studies Alive! America's Past Unit 1 Activity Cards by Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI)

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Social Studies Alive! America’s Past Unit 1: America’s Geographic Setting Lesson 1: Geography of the United States

Activity Card A: Geography Challenge A Page 1 © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute

Label the largest continent.

A1 Label the smallest continent.

Label the continent that is south of the Southern Ocean.

Fun Fact: New York City served as the nation’s capital city for five years beginning in 1785, exactly 100 years before the arrival of the Statue of Liberty.

Locate the United States. Within its borders, label the two hemispheres in which it is located.

Fun Fact: Nearly 11,000,000 people visit the Sydney Opera House every year on this continent.

Fun Fact: Hong Kong is the world’s most densely populated city on China’s south coast located on this continent.

Label the continent directly north of Africa.

Label the ocean that touches the shores of both Europe and South America.

Fun Fact: This continent is the largest desert on Earth. A desert is any location that receives less than 10 inches of rain per year.

Write the name of the meridian at 0˚ longitude.

Fun Fact: The citizens of Venice, Italy, located on this continent, use boats called gondolas instead of cars.

Write the name of the parallel at 0˚ latitude.

Fun Fact: The Airy Transit Circle telescope in Greenwich, England measured the exact location of this for the first time in 1851.

Fun Fact: Puerto Madero is a barrio, or neighborhood, off the coast of this ocean in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Label the ocean that touches the shores of both Asia and South America.

Fun Fact: La Mitad del Mundo in Ecuador is a monument built to highlight the exact location of this line.

Fun Fact: This ocean completely surrounds Hawaii, the only U.S. state that is entirely made up of islands.

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Activity Card A: Geography Challenge A Page 2 © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute

Two continents lie entirely in the Western Hemisphere. Label the one which is the furthest north.

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Label the ocean where 15˚ south latitude and 90˚ east longitude is located. Fun Fact: With almost 9,000,000 people, Mexico City is the largest city on this continent.

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Fun Fact: Unawatuna is a popular surf spot and tourist attraction in Sri Lanka and known for its beaches and corals found in this ocean.

Label the continent where 15˚ north latitude and 15˚ east longitude is located.

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Label the continent where 15˚ south latitude and 60˚ west longitude is located.

Fun Fact: The Sahara Desert, located on this continent, is the largest hot desert in the world and is bigger than the continental USA.

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Fun Fact: You can find Angel Falls, the world’s highest uninterrupted waterfall, on this continent.

A16 Locate the two hemispheres in which the large island off of the southwest coast of Africa is located. Fun Fact: This island is a country called Madagascar. It is the fourth largest island in the world and home to the Baobab tree.

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Label the ocean that lies at 75˚ north latitude.

Fun Fact: This is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s five major oceans.

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Label the ocean that runs along the entire parallel of 60˚ south latitude.

Fun Fact: The Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand, is near this ocean and is the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Social Studies Alive! America’s Past Unit 1: America’s Geographic Setting Lesson 1: Geography of the United States

Activity Card B: Geography Challenge B Page 1 © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute

Fun Fact: Due to its hundreds of tributaries, this river’s watershed is in 32 states and is the largest drainage basin in North America.

Label the river that forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico.

Fun Fact: This ocean connects Great Britain to Boston Harbor, site of the famous Boston Tea Party in 1773 and home to a museum about this event that led to the American Revolution.

Label the ocean that lies off the East Coast of the United States.

Label the large body of water that lies between Texas and Florida.

Fun Fact: Its source is the Colorado River and flows into the Gulf of Mexico, forming an international border between the state of Texas and Mexico.

Label the ocean that lies off the West Coast of the United States.

Label the main river just west of the Appalachian Mountains that runs into the Mississippi River.

Fun Fact: Created over 300 million years ago when continental plates collided and the seafloor sunk, this area is a major source of oil and natural gas.

Label the largest river in the United States, which has its source in Minnesota and mouth in Louisiana.

Fun Fact: Mined in the Appalachian Mountains along this river, coal is the world’s largest source of energy used to produce electricity.

Label the flat land along the southern coast of the continental United States.

Fun Fact: It can take a container ship anywhere from two weeks to a month to cross this ocean from China to the United States.

Label the large area of flat land found between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River.

Fun Fact: The Louisiana Delta is the location for the confluence, or joining, of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Label the four Great Lakes that form part of the border between Canada and the United States. Fun Fact: This is the largest freshwater system in the world.

Fun Fact: The American bison arrived here after crossing a land bridge between Alaska and Asia. It became the official mammal of the United States in 2016.

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Activity Card B: Geography Challenge B Page 4 © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute

B10 Label the main mountain range that runs through the eastern United States. Fun Fact: Forests, waterfalls, and mills are located throughout this range that extends from Georgia up through Maine and into Canada.

B13 Label the river that runs from the Rocky Mountains into the Mississippi River. Fun Fact: The longest river in the United States, the confluence of this river and the Mississippi is in St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch.

B16 Label the mountainous area bordered on one side by California and the other Colorado. Fun Fact: Not a single river in this immense area of deserts and mountains flows to the ocean.

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Label the first mountain range west of the Great Plains.

B11 Label the largest river that empties into the Pacific Ocean.

Fun Fact: These mountains are made of more than 100 separate ranges and form the Continental Divide, separating rivers draining to the Atlantic and Arctic from the Pacific Ocean.

Fun Fact: A natural border between Ontario, Canada and New York, this river is a major shipping route between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.

Label the river that runs northeast from Lake Ontario into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Fun Fact: The largest river in the Pacific Northwest, it’s also the largest hydroelectric powerproducing river in North America with 14 dams in Canada and the United States.

B14 Label high mountains that run through California and include the tallest peak in the continental United States. Fun Fact: With an elevation of 14,505 feet, Mt. Whitney is the tallest peak in the continental United States and is located in this mountain range.

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B3 Social Studies Alive! America’s Past Unit 1: America’s Geographic Setting Lesson 4: How and Why Europeans Came to the New World

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B3 Social Studies Alive! America’s Past Unit 1: America’s Geographic Setting Lesson 4: How and Why Europeans Came to the New World

B1 Social Studies Alive! America’s Past Unit 1: America’s Geographic Setting Lesson 4: How and Why Europeans Came to the New World

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