State of Florida
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Florida Map Study
Answer the following questions below as you study the map of Florida. You may want to do the
map study once a day for a few days until you are sure you know the map well. Then move on to
the geography drill on the next two pages.
1.
Miami-Dade county is in the northeast, northwest, or southeast of Florida?
2.
Is Fort Lauderdale north or south of Miami?
3.
What two large bodies of water surround Florida?
4.
The Florida Keys lay between what two bodies of water?
5.
Is the city of Tallahassee closer to the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean?
6.
Is the city of Kissimmee north or south of Orlando?
7.
What two states border Florida?
8.
What two counties make up the southernmost tip of Florida?
9.
Which of these cities is on the East Coast of Florida—Clearwater, Saint Augustine, or
Sarasota?
10.
Which of these counties is not in the Florida Panhandle—Santa Rosa, Jackson, Polk, or
Calhoun?
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Florida Geography Drill
Now that you are familiar with the map of Florida, use it to answer the following questions. See if
you can answer them all in less than five minutes. Once you are done, set the map and drill aside
for a few days. Try the drill again and see if you can still do it in less than five minutes. Can you get
your time down to less than three minutes? Less than two minutes?
1.
What northern Florida county holds the state capital of Tallahassee?
2.
What county’s seat lies on an island off the coast of Florida?
3.
What county touches both Alabama and Georgia?
4.
What county lies against Lake Okeechobee and has the county seat of Okeechobee?
5.
What is the northernmost county that also lies against the Atlantic Ocean?
6.
What four counties border Apalachee Bay?
7.
What county’s seat is Pensacola?
8.
What county sits between Santa Rosa County and Walton County?
9.
What county borders Georgia and has a county seat that matches the county name?
10.
What county is Orlando in?
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11.
What county borders the Gulf of Mexico and Hillsborough and Pasco counties?
12.
What two counties border the Atlantic Ocean and begin with the name Saint?
13.
What county shares a border with both Collier County and Glades County?
14.
What county borders the Gulf of Mexico and whose name is also a word for a type of a fruit?
15.
What county borders the western part of Columbia County, but does not border Alachua
County or Georgia?
16.
What county is Panama City in?
17.
What county is on the northwest border of Lake County?
18.
What county borders the Atlantic Ocean and Volusia, Putnum, and Saint Johns Counties?
19.
What county borders Lake and Orange Counties and shares its name with a Native American
tribe?
20.
What county borders Sarasota County and Highlands County?
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Florida Map Study Answer Key
1.
Southeast
2.
North
3.
Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean
4.
Florida Bay and the Straits of Florida
5.
Gulf of Mexico
6.
South
7.
Alabama and Georgia
8.
Monroe and Miami-Dade
9.
Saint Augustine
10.
Polk
Florida Geography Drill Answer Key
1.
Leon
2.
Monroe
3.
Jackson
4.
Okeechobee
5.
Nassau
6.
Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Franklin
7.
Escambia
8.
Okaloosa
9.
Madison
10.
Orange
11.
Pinellas
12.
Saint Johns and Saint Lucie
13.
Hendry
14.
Citrus
15.
Suwannee
16.
Bay
17.
Marion
18.
Flagler
19.
Seminole
20.
DeSoto
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