State Map Skills: Florida
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Florida 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: Florida
Name ___________________________________________ Date _________________
Florida State Map
Map Skills Questions
1. What is Florida’s nickname?
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2. What is the capital of Florida?
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3. What is the name of the highest point in Florida?
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4. What highway goes from Pensacola to Jacksonville?
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5. Name the river that forms part of Florida’s northeastern border.
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6. What city is located at the intersection of Highways 10 and 95?
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7. Name the two states that border Florida to the north.
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8. What river is closest to the city of Cape Coral?
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9. What direction would you travel on Highway 95 to get from Miami to
Fort Lauderdale?
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10. Name the group of islands located at the southern tip of Florida.
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State Map Skills: Florida
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Florida State Map
Map Skills Questions, con’t.
11. What bay is located near Saint Petersburg?
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12. What body of water borders Florida to the west?
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13. Name the two rivers located between Pensacola and Tallahassee.
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14. What is the approximate distance between Jacksonville and Fort
Lauderdale?
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15. What large body of water is east of the Kennedy Space Center?
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16. What bay is located east of the Everglades?
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17. What is the approximate distance between Tallahassee and Tampa?
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18. What is the elevation of Florida’s highest point?
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19. What direction would you travel from Kissimmee to reach Disney
World?
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20. What city is northeast of Okeechobee Lake?
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State Map Skills: Florida
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Florida State Map
ANSWERS:
1. The Sunshine State
2. Tallahassee
3. Britton Hill
4. Interstate Highway 10
5. Saint Marys River
6. Jacksonville
7. Alabama and Georgia
8. Caloosahatchee River
9. north
10. Florida Keys
11. Tampa Bay
12. Gulf of Mexico
13. Chipola River and Apalachicola River
14. 300 miles
15. Atlantic Ocean
16. Biscayne Bay
17. 200 miles
18. 345 feet
19. northwest
20. Port Saint Lucie
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