Name __________________
Daily Geography - Week 1
1. Where would a person look on a map to find out what each symbol means?
_________________________________________________________
2. Where would you look to find out which direction north is on the map?
_________________________________________________________
3. How many states are there in the United States? ____________________
4. Which is the largest ocean in the world? __________________________
5. Which is the smallest ocean?___________________________________
6. Use your atlas to help you write the definition of a lake?
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
7. Des Moines is to Iowa as ____________________________ is to Oregon.
8. Which state is farther north, Louisiana or New Mexico?
_________________________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 2
1. Name the seven continents of the world.
______________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. Draw the map symbol that indicates a national capital? (It’s different from a
state capital.)
3. The Mississippi River begins in Minnesota and empties out into the Gulf of
Mexico. What is the last state through which it flows?
_________________________________________________________
4. What ocean is west of North America and South America?
_________________________________________________________
5. Draw a compass rose and label the four
cardinal (or main) directions.
6. Which state has the longer border with Canada, New York or Montana?
_________________________________________________________
7. Name the five oceans. ________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
8. What river forms a boundary between Texas and Mexico?
_________________________________________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 3
1. What is the name of the imaginary line that is halfway between the North
and South Pole? (Remember, it must be capitalized.)
_________________________________________________________
2. What state is due east of Colorado and due north of Oklahoma?
_________________________________________________________
3. What is the definition of a map? ________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
4. What is the only Great Lake that is completely within the United States?
_________________________________________________________
5. What major river flows into the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis,
Missouri?
_________________________________________________________
6. What is the capital of Texas? __________________________________
7. Which state has more land area, Iowa or New Hampshire?
_________________________________________________________
8. Maryland is one of two states that gave up part of their land to create
Washington, D.C. What is Maryland’s capital?
_________________________________________________________
Name __________________________
Daily Geography – Week 4
1. Which continent, South America or Africa, is closer to the Arctic Ocean?
___________________________________________________________
2. In which hemisphere is the United States, the Northern or Southern?
___________________________________________________________
3. The following four countries have the largest land areas in the world. Name
the continents on which they can be found.
Russia ________________________________________________
Canada _______________________________________________
China ________________________________________________
United States __________________________________________
4. What is the name of the large island due south of Florida?
_________________________________________________________
5. What two oceans do not touch Australia? __________________________
_________________________________________________________
6. Which of the Great Lakes is farthest east?
____________________________________
7. What does a star on a map usually mean? __________________________
_________________________________________________________
8. Which continent is larger in land area, Europe or Asia?
_________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 5
1. What three states come together where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi
River?
_________________________________________________________
2. Kentucky is known for its bluegrass. What is this state’s capital?
_________________________________________________________
3. In which ocean could you go swimming if you were in California?
_________________________________________________________
4. What three oceans border South America?
_________________________________________________________
5. What is the capital of South Carolina? ____________________________
6. What four Great Lakes touch the state of Michigan? _________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
7. Which of the five oceans do not touch the continent of North America?
_________________________________________________________
8. Name the state due north of our state.
_______________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 6
1. Which is larger in land area, China or Russia? _______________________
2. What natural feature creates Arkansas’ eastern border?
_________________________________________________________
3. What city, located on the Hudson River, is the capital of the state of New
York? ______________________________________________________
3. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the
Northern and Southern Hemispheres? (Remember to capitalize it.)
_________________________________________________________
6. What state would have a warmer climate, Montana or Florida? Explain why
you think so. _______________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
7. What is the definition of an island? ______________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
8. The following are the four largest countries in order of land area: Russia,
Canada, China and the United States. What South American country is the
fifth largest?
_____________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 7
1. Which is larger in land area, California or Missouri?
_________________________________________________________
2. In what state are you if you can see both the Gulf of Mexico and the
Atlantic Ocean?
____________________________________________
3. Georgia is known as the “Peach State”. What is its capital?
_________________________________________________________
4. What state is due north of Hawaii? ______________________________
5. On a map, what is a wavy blue line usually a symbol of?
___________________________________________________________
6. What are the only two continents entirely north of the Equator?
___________________________________________________________
7. Name the five oceans of the world. ______________________________
___________________________________________________________
8. What ocean is east of Florida? __________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 8
1. Which continent extends farther south, Australia or South America?
_________________________________________________________
1. Carson City is the capital of what U.S. state? _______________________
2. Which continent is due south of Italy and Greece? ___________________
3. Which continent is smaller in land area, Europe or Australia?
_________________________________________________________
4. Which state of these three would have the coldest weather: Washington,
Georgia, or Oklahoma?
_________________________________________________________
5. Through which states would you pass if you traveled by car from Texas to
California using the shortest route?
_________________________________________________________
6. Which ocean is larger, the Arctic Ocean or the Indian Ocean?
________________________________________
7. Which direction would you have to travel to go from
Vermont to New Hampshire?
___________________________________
8. Red dots are used as symbols on maps in your atlas.
What does this symbol mean?
____________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 9
1. What country lies to the east of Alaska? __________________________
2. Nebraska is known as the “Corn Husker” state. What is its capital?
_________________________________________________________
3. If you traveled south from South America, what is the next continent you
would reach?
_________________________________________________________
4. What ocean touches the west coast of the United States?
_________________________________________________________
5. Circle the statement that is true?
South America is north of the Equator.
South America is south of the Equator.
South America is north and south of the Equator.
6. Are the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern or western United States?
_________________________________________________________
7. What is the only state bordered by two oceans? _____________________
8. Which of the following is not a state: Missouri, Idaho, or Chicago?
___________________________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 10
1. What two continents are joined into one large land mass?
______________________________________________
2. What is the capital of New Jersey, the state with the
motto “Liberty and Prosperity”?
_________________________________________________________
3. The Indian Ocean touches what three continents? ___________________
___________________________________________________________
4. The Pacific Ocean touches every continent except three. Name them.
_________________________________________________________
5. What is the country that is north of the United States?
_________________________________________________________
6. Is China north or south of the Equator? ___________________________
7. Which would take longer, to travel by car from South Dakota to Canada or
from South Dakota to Indiana?
___________________________________________________________
8. Name all the states that border Lake Erie. _______________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 11
1. If you take the first letter from each Great Lake,
you can spell the word HOMES. Name them the five
Great Lakes. (Remember to capitalize them.)
H_______________________________
O ______________________________
M ______________________________
E _______________________________
S _______________________________
2. What is the name of the city that is the capital of the state of Washington?
_________________________________________________________
3. What state has the longest border on the Atlantic Ocean?
_________________________________________________________
4. Which is farther, Nevada to Wyoming or Colorado to Illinois?
_________________________________________________________
5. Through which oceans does the Equator pass?
_________________________________________________________
6. Name the five oceans. ________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
7. Use the cardinal directions to describe the location of Ohio in relation to all
its surrounding states. (For example, Ohio is south of ____________.)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 12
1. What three oceans touch the continent of Africa? ___________________
_________________________________________________________
2. How many U. S. states are north of the Equator? ____________________
4. Name all of the continents that the Equator passes through. ____________
___________________________________________________________
5. What four states meet at a common corner? _______________________
_________________________________________________________
6. What direction is West Virginia from South Carolina? _________________
7. What mountain range runs from Canada to the state of Alabama?
_________________________________________________________
8. What kinds of animals usually live in the
areas often represented in blue on a
map?
__________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 13
1. What is the capital of the state that borders Kansas to the south?
_________________________________________________________
2. Name five of the eleven states that border Canada. __________________
_________________________________________________________
3. Which states touch California? _________________________________
_________________________________________________________
4. What is the only direction in which you can travel from the North Pole?
_________________________________________________________
5. In what direction is the Equator from the South Pole? ________________
6. Are there more mountain ranges or continents in the world?
_________________________________________________________
7. Which one of the states shares its name with one of the Great Lakes?
_________________________________________________________
8. Which Great Lake is larger, Lake Superior or Lake Erie?
_________________________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 14
1. West Virginia is known as the “Mountain State”. What is its capital?
_________________________________________________________
2. What states are due north of Wisconsin? __________________________
_________________________________________________________
3. What river forms the border between the states of Arizona and California?
_________________________________________________________
4. Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States, is located in Oregon.
What is the capital of Oregon?
_________________________________________________________
5. Name at least three states on the east coast of the United States.
_________________________________________________________
6. In what state are the Everglades located? _________________________
7. What is the most northern place on Earth called? ____________________
8. What is the capital of our state? ________________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 15
1. What three oceans touch Australia? _____________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. What is the capital of the state whose neighbors are Mississippi, Tennessee,
Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana?
_________________________________________________________
3. Is most of South America north or south of the Equator? ______________
4. Which of the following is not a state: Idaho, India, Iowa, Illinois?
_________________________________________________________
5. If you traveled from North America to Europe, would you have to cross the
Equator?
______________________________
6. On which continent is the South Pole located? _______________________
7. What is the city, located on the Mississippi River, that is the capital of
Louisiana?
______________________________
8. Name the state(s) that border Mexico. __________________________
________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 16
1. What continent is farthest south of the Equator? ____________________
2. What is the longest river in the United States? (Don’t just assume. The
answer will probably surprise you.)
_________________________________________________________
3. What is the only state in the United States that is an island?
_________________________________________________________
4. What two Great Lakes border Wisconsin? __________________________
_________________________________________________________
5. Which is farther, Illinois to Ohio or California to Texas? ______________
___________________________________________________________
6. What is the name of the large body of water separating North and South
America from Europe and Africa?
_________________________________________________________
7. What is the Continental Divide? _________________________________
___________________________________________________________
8. Which capital is farther north – Salt Lake City, Utah or Carson City,
Nevada?
___________________________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 17
1. Name the three oceans that border the continent on which you live.
_________________________________________________________
2. What state has Cheyenne as its capital? ___________________________
3. What direction is Lake Ontario from Lake Michigan? __________________
4. What state is west of the Mississippi River and due south of Missouri?
_________________________________________________________
5. Would you find more mountains in the eastern or western part of Montana?
_________________________________________________________
6. Which state has the larger area, Delaware or Hawaii? _________________
7. What is the capital of the only state that is cut in two by one of the Great
Lakes?
_________________________________________________
8. The Atlantic Ocean touches what four continents? ___________________
_________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 18
1. What ocean is east of where you live? _____________________________
2. Which state is farther east, Indiana or Tennessee?
_________________________________________________________
3. Which state has more land area, New York or Texas?
_________________________________________________________
4. Springfield is to Illinois as ___________________________ is to Arizona.
5. Name the states that have the Pacific Ocean as a border. ______________
_________________________________________________________
6. If you were walking north, which way would you turn, left or right, to go
west?
_________________________________________________________
7. Which is larger, the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean?
_________________________________________________________
8. What continent is cut almost in half by the Equator?
_________________________________________________________
Name ________________________
Daily Geography – Week 19
1. Explain the purpose of a key on a map. _____________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. What is the capital of the state that shares its long southern border with
Texas?
_________________________________________________
3. What color is used the most on a map of the world?
___________________
4. What state is between Mississippi and Georgia? _____________________
5. What river forms the border between Indiana and Kentucky?
_________________________________________________________
6. The Middle East includes the countries of Afghanistan, Israel, Saudi Arabia,
and Iraq among others. Which continent is the Middle East considered to be
a part of?
_________________________________________________
7. Name at least three bodies of water that touch the United States?
_________________________________________________________
8. What two countries border the United States?
_________________________________________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 20
1. Are the Rocky Mountains located in the eastern or western part of the
United States?
_____________________________________________
2. Which state has the larger land area, Minnesota or Iowa?
_________________________________________________________
3. Which continent is closer to Africa, North America or South America?
_________________________________________________________
4. Is the United States in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere?
_________________________________________________________
5. Which of the five Great Lakes is farthest west? ____________________
6. Which state is farther north, Wyoming or South Dakota?
_________________________________________________________
7. In what states is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park located?
_________________________________________________________
9. If you were in Dallas, Texas, in what direction would you need to travel in
order to reach the Equator?
___________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 21
1. Name three countries in Africa. _________________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. Is the state of Mississippi east or west of the Mississippi River?
_________________________________________________________
3. What river serves as part of Oklahoma’s southern border?
_________________________________________________________
4. What is the name given to a body of land with water completely surrounding
it?
_________________________________________________
5. Which direction would you go to travel from Colorado to West Virginia?
_________________________________________________________
6. What is the state with the largest land area? _______________________
7. What is the capital of the state that shares the longest border with
Nevada?
_________________________________________________
8. What two oceans do not extend both north and south of the Equator?
_________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 22
1. Which capital city is farther east, Springfield, Illinois or Montgomery,
Alabama?
_________________________________________________
2. What river is the western border of the state of Illinois?
_________________________________________________________
3. Name the four states that border Lake Michigan. ____________________
_________________________________________________________
4. Which state is due north of Pennsylvania? _________________________
5. Is the United States in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern
Hemisphere?
_________________________________________________
6. What direction would you head if you wanted to travel from Texas to South
Dakota?
_________________________________________________
7. Which usually has more land, a country or a state? ___________________
8. What is the name of the ocean between Africa and Australia?
_________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 23
1. Is a state’s capital city always the largest city in the state? ____________
2. To which continent does Greenland belong? _________________________
3. How many states in the United States touch at least one other state?
_________________________________________________________
4. What direction is New Hampshire from Connecticut? _________________
5. Which of the following states is not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean: New
Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania?
_________________________________________________________
6. What direction would you be going if you were traveling from Georgia to
Mississippi?
_________________________________________________________
7. Which state has more land area, Idaho or Maine? ____________________
8. Name the states and country that are due west of Texas? _____________
___________________________________________________________
Name _______________________
Daily Geography – Week 24
1. What continent is north of South America? _________________________
2. What is the name of the large body of water that is south of Louisiana and
west of Florida?
_________________________________________________
3. What state is due east of Connecticut? ___________________________
4. Which country is larger in area, the United States or Canada?
_________________________________________________________
5. In what state are the Green Mountains located? _____________________
6. If you were to travel by airplane from Sacramento, California to Denver,
Colorado, over what states would you probably fly?
_________________________________________________________
7. What is the continent on which the Netherlands and Belgium are located?
_________________________________________________________
8. British Columbia is due north of what states? _______________________
_________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 25
1. What three continents does the Arctic Ocean touch? _________________
_________________________________________________________
2. If you traveled from Oregon to Wyoming, what direction would you be going?
_________________________________________________________
3. What two countries are north of Mexico and are part of the continent of
North America?
_________________________________________________
4. Name the five oceans of the world. _______________________________
_________________________________________________________
5. In what state does the Mississippi River begin? _____________________
6. How many states are there in the United States? ____________________
7. Is Alabama north or south of Tennessee? __________________________
8. What is the name of the sea that surrounds the island of Jamaica?
_________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 26
1. What country is between Canada and Mexico? _______________________
2. Which of the seven continents has the largest land area?
_________________________________________________________
3. Which of the following is not a state: New York, Los Angeles, Mississippi?
_________________________________________________________
4. On most maps, what color is used to show water? ____________________
5. What is the capital of Georgia? _________________________________
6. On a map, the key tells you that 1 inch equals 100 miles. How many inches
would it take to show 500 miles?
________________________________
7. Which state is farther north, Washington or Oregon?
_________________________________________________________
8. What state is due west of Alabama? ______________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 27
1. What direction would you have to travel to get from Arizona to Idaho?
_________________________________________________________
2. List the seven continents of the world. ____________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
3. Which three oceans border the United States? _____________________
_________________________________________________________
4. What imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the
Southern Hemisphere?
_____________________________________________
5. What imaginary line divides the Earth into the Eastern Hemisphere and the
Western Hemisphere?
_____________________________________________
6. Which of the following is not a state: Iowa, Indianapolis, Illinois?
_________________________________________________________
7. What state is due south of New Hampshire? ________________________
8. Name the four states that surround the state of Mississippi. ___________
_________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 28
1. In which direction would you go to get from Carson City, Nevada to Denver,
Colorado?
_________________________________________________
2. What two states are due north of Georgia and border the Atlantic Ocean?
_________________________________________________________
3. Which state has a desert, Alaska or Arizona? _______________________
4. What do Huron, Erie, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior all have in common?
_________________________________________________________
5. What ocean borders the United States to the east? __________________
6. In which direction would you go to get from Washington, D.C. to Indiana?
_________________________________________________________
7. What continent is due north of Egypt? ____________________________
8. Which distance is farther, California to Utah or California to Colorado?
___________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 29
1. What state is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean?
___________________________________________
2. What is the name of the lake due north of Wisconsin that is the second
largest lake in the world?
_____________________________________________
3. What country would you be in if you were to travel due west from the state
of Maine?
________________________________________
4. The key on a map tells you that ½ inch equals 100 miles. The state of
Wisconsin is 1 ½ inches long. How many miles would this be? ____________
5. Which state is closer to the North Pole, Wyoming or Ohio?
_________________________________________________________
6. There are 26 states east of the Mississippi River. How many states, then,
are west of the river? ________________________________________
7. Which animal would probably be found closer to the Equator, the llama of
northern South America or the panda of northern Asia?
_________________________________________________________
8. If you went to a San Francisco Giants home game, in what state would you
be?
_________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 30
1. Name at least four states that border the Mississippi River. ____________
_________________________________________________________
2. Which is farther east, North Dakota or North Carolina?
_________________________________________________________
3. What is the only state in the U.S. that is located outside of the North
American continent?
_________________________________________
4. What three continents surround the Mediterranean Sea? ______________
_________________________________________________________
5. What state borders Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska and South
Dakota?
_________________________________________
6. On what continent are France and Switzerland located? _______________
7. What direction would you have to travel if you lived in Ohio and wanted to
visit your aunt in Illinois?
_________________________________________
8. What state borders Tennessee to the east? ________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 31
1. If you were at the North Pole, would you be in an Arctic or Antarctic region?
_________________________________________________________
2. What direction is New Mexico from Arizona? _______________________
3. What state is larger in size, Delaware or Vermont? ___________________
4. Using cardinal directions, describe the location of Colorado in relation to its
surrounding states?
_____________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
5. What state borders Georgia to the west? __________________________
6. Find the name of a large river in southern Idaho.
_________________________________________________________
7. Which state is farther north, Wisconsin or Minnesota? ________________
8. Name at least two capital cities in South America that are located on an
ocean.
_________________________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 32
1. Name at least three things Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia have in common.
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. In what part of the United States is Kansas located: east, west or central?
_________________________________________________________
3. Name two states that are on opposite coasts.
_________________________________________________________
4. Which state bordering Kansas has many high mountains? _______________
5. What is the last state the Mississippi River flows through before it enters
the Gulf of Mexico?
_________________________________________
6. What continent is just south of most of Europe? ____________________
7. A very dry area where few plants can grow is called a _________________
8. Do the Tampa Bay Buccaneers travel farther when they play the Houston
Oilers or the Dallas Cowboys?
_________________________________________
Name _____________________
Daily Geography – Week 33
1. Why don’t many people live in desert climates? ______________________
_________________________________________________________
2. What state borders Lake Ontario to the south? _____________________
3. The U.S. is divided into 50 states. Canada is divided in much the same way,
but they are not called states. What are these called? _______________
_________________________________________________________
4. What foreign country borders North Dakota? _______________________
5. What river in part serves as a southern border for the state of Washington?
_________________________________________________________
6. In what state is each of the follow cities located?
Chicago: ___________________
Denver: __________________
Portland: _____________________
Miami: ___________________
7. Name two continents located entirely between the Equator and the South
Pole.
_________________________________________________________
8.There are two U.S. states that are not a part of the continental United
States. Name them.
_________________________________________
Name ______________________
Daily Geography – Week 34
1. How many states border Lake Huron? _____________________________
2. Which state is farther west, Oregon or Utah? ______________________
3. What is the capital of the state that is made up of several islands?
_________________________________________________________
4. What body of water does Texas border? __________________________
5. What state is between Texas and Kansas? _________________________
6. What is the state farthest north that has mountains?
_________________________________________________________
7. Which state borders both Minnesota and Michigan? __________________
8. What is the capital of the state that borders only one other state?
_________________________________________________________
Name _________________________
Daily Geography – Week 35
1. What four states border Montana? _______________________________
_________________________________________________________
2. What is the capital of the only state that touches the western border of the
Oklahoma Panhandle?
_________________________________________
3. What large body of water borders Oregon to the west?
_________________________________________________________
4. What direction is Lake Superior from Lake Michigan? _________________
5. What two continents have the Atlantic Ocean as their western border?
_________________________________________________________
6. To go from Nebraska directly north to Canada, through what two states
would you pass?
_____________________________________________
7. Through what three South American countries does the Equator pass?
_________________________________________________________
8. What country borders Arizona to the south? _______________________
Name ____________________
Daily Geography – Week 36
1. Are temperatures cooler or warmer as you get closer to the
Equator?
__________________________________________
2. In what state is the Great Salt Lake located? _______________________
3. What is the capital of Alaska, the state with the highest mountain peak in all
of North America?
_____________________________________________
4. If you are heading towards the North Pole, would east be to your right or to
your left?
_____________________________________________
5. Which northeastern state forms a large cape into the Atlantic Ocean?
_________________________________________________________
6. Afghanistan is a country in the Middle East. Name three countries that
border it.
_________________________________________________________
7. What river forms the border between Arizona and California?
_________________________________________________________
8. What river forms the southern boundary of Ohio and Indiana?
_________________________________________________________