Social Studies Unit 2
The United States in Spatial Terms Review
Name:
Directions: Use your social studies note and handouts to answer the following questions in
complete sentences.
1.
What are the five main questions that geographers ask?
2.
Draw a compass rose to the right of the map below. Include cardinal and intermediate
directions.
a.
If you were at Gord School, what direction would you have to travel to get to the Nature
Museum?
b.
What lies directly south of City Park?
c.
What direction would I have to travel to go from Jorge’s Restaurant to Lake Gord?
3.
Why is the Northest more densely populated that much of the rest of the country?
4.
Describe what this map is showing.
a. The pattern of lights show that most people in the United States live by what physical
feature?
b. Near what Great Lake is Detroit located?
5.
What type of special purpose map is this? Why would a 4th grade students what to use
this map?
Name the two major mountain ranges on this map and where they are located.
6.
When discussing regions of the United States, sometimes we divide them into unique
regions like the “Corn Belt” and the “Rust Belt”. How did these regions receive their
names? Where are these two regions located?
7.
How can landforms divide the United States into regions?
8.
Study the special purpose map above. What does this map tell you? Why would you
want to know this information? P
​ lease see Mrs. Schug’s blog for color version of
map if you are having difficulty reading the one above.
Which part of our country receives the most precipitation?
The least?
About how much precipitation does MI receive annually?
9.
What is the physical feature that Michigan is best know for?
10.
Geographers often divide the United States into regions, each region having characteristics that
make them different from the others. The map above shows one way that the United States
could be divided into regions.
Use the information from the map to answer the following with complete sentences.
a. What is one characteristic that geographers could have used to divide this map into
regions shown above? Support your answer by identifying a region and explaining how
the characteristics is different from other regions.
b.
According to this map. Michigan is located in the Midwest region. Name t​ wo
characteristics that Michigan has in common with the other states that are located in this
region. Support your answer with details.
c. There are many ways that the United States could be divided into regions. Name
another way the United States could be divided into regions.