State Map Skills: Alabama
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Alabama State Map
Use this map to answer the questions on the following pages.
Measure approximate distances along a straight line, not along roads.
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State Map Skills: Alabama
Name ___________________________________________ Date _________________
Alabama State Map
Map Skills Questions
1. What is Alabama’s nickname?
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2. What is the capital of Alabama?
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3. What is the name of the highest point in Alabama?
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4. What highway goes from Mobile to Tennessee?
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5. Name the river that forms part of Alabama’s eastern border.
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6. What city is located at the intersection of Highways 65 and 10?
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7. What state borders Alabama to the west?
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8. What river is closest to the city of Gadsden?
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9. What direction would you travel on Highway 59 to get from
Tuscaloosa to Birmingham?
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10. Name two cities that are north of Lewis Smith Lake and west of
Highway 65.
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State Map Skills: Alabama
Name ___________________________________________ Date _________________
Alabama State Map
Map Skills Questions, con’t.
11. What mountain range is located between the Coosa River and the
Tallapoosa River?
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12. What body of water forms part of Alabama’s southern border?
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13. What city is in the southeastern corner of Alabama?
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14. What is the approximate distance between Tuscaloosa and
Birmingham?
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15. Name the small highway that crosses Highways 65 and 20, just south
of Birmingham.
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16. What is the large river located south of Florence and North of
Decatur?
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17. What is the approximate distance between Montgomery and Mobile?
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18. What is the elevation of Alabama’s highest point?
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19. From Anniston, what direction must you travel to reach Georgia?
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20. Name the river in the southwestern part of Alabama that is closest to
Mississippi.
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State Map Skills: Alabama
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Alabama State Map
ANSWERS:
1. Yellowhammer State
2. Montgomery
3. Cheaha Mountain
4. Interstate Highway 65
5. Chattahoochee River
6. Mobile
7. Mississippi
8. Coosa River
9. northeast
10. Florence and Decatur
11. Talladega Mountains
12. Gulf of Mexico
13. Dothan
14. 50 miles
15. Interstate Highway 459
16. Tennessee River
17. 150 miles
18. 2407 ft.
19. east
20. Tombigbee River
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