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GROW - Week 1

1.  What are the names of the four hemispheres of the Earth? In Which two do you live?

2.  What does a star or a dot in a circle usually mean on a map?

3.  Which of the following is not a city: Columbus, Arkansas, Atlanta, Charleston?

4.  What is the name given to a point of land extending into a body of water?

5.  What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth in half?

6.  Is the Tropic of Capricorn north or south of the Equator?

7.  What is the most southern point in the world called?

8.  Name the four oceans of the Earth.

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GROW - Week 2

1.  What is the definition of a peninsula?

2.  What does a star on a map usually mean?

3.  Which of the following is not a state: Kansas, Iowa, Washington, DC, Oregon?

4.  Is the Antarctic Circle north of south of the Equator?

5.  What part of a map contains information on what the map's symbols mean?

6.  What is a continent? What are the names of the continents on the planet Earth?

7.  Which ocean is the second largest in the world?

8.  Which hemisphere is south of where you live?

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GROW - Week 4

1.  Name at least five countries that the Tropic of Capricorn passes through.

2.  What is the capital of Missouri?

3.  What are the two smallest continents in land area that also happen to look like islands?

4.  What three countries in South America have the Equator passing through them?

5.  Of the four oceans of the world, which is the largest in terms of area? The smallest?"

6.  Which continent has the fewest number of nations?

7.  What is the capital of the New England state that has a large "hook" of land jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean?

8.  How many continents does the Equator cross? What are those continents in order of land area from largest to smallest?

GROW - Week 6

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1.    What is the relationship between a country and a state?

2.    Where do rivers begin or have their sources:     in oceans,    mountains/lakes

3.    What is the difference between a bay and a peninsula?

4.    What is the capital of Indiana, a state which became a state in 1816?

5.     How many of the U.S. states are ON the North American continent?

6.    Is there more water or land on the Earth?

7.    What is the only ocean through which the Equator does not pass?

8.    Name the three continents that are located mainly between the Equator and the North Pole?

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GROW - Week 7

1.    What is the capital of Illinois?

2.    Is most of the South America above or below the Tropic of Cancer?

3.    Name the longest mountain range in the United States.

4.    Which continent is farther north:         North America     or     Africa?

5.    Does darker green usually indicate land that is nigher or lower than a dark brown color on a map?

6.    If you didn't understand a symbol on a map, where would you look?

7.    Are there more mountains East or West of the Mississippi River?

8.    What is the capital of Iowa, the state known as the "Hawkeye" state?

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GROW - Week 9

1.    What is the capital of Alaska, the only state that touches two islands?

2.    What does a map scale show?

3.    As you get ____________ to the Equator, temperatures usually get ____________.

4.    What ocean borders the Soviet Union to the North?

5.    What are the names of the Great Lakes?

6.    What is the capital of Washington, the state where the largest dam in the United States (Grand Coulee) is located?

7.    What two oceans meet at the southern tip of South America?

8.    Which hemisphere has more land:      Eastern   or    Western?

GROW - Week 10

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Week 10:

1.    What is the city, whose name comes from the French word "red stick", that is the capital of Louisiana?

2.    What is the only city in the United States that is not in a state?

3.    What continents are in the Northern Hemisphere?

4.    How many of the Great Lakes border Canada?

5.     The Mediterranean Sea touches what three continents?

6.    What part of the Earth is covered with water:        1/4        1/2       3/4

7.    What is the city, located on the Missouri River, that is the capital of North Dakota?

8.    What two continents are located entirely within the Southern Hemisphere?

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GROW - Week 11:

1.    Which state has the longest coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?

2.    What is the capital of Ohio, the state that is the birthplace of seven presidents of the United States?

3.    Which ocean contains many icebergs?

4.    What country in the Western Hemisphere does the Tropic of Cancer pass through?

5.     Which pole is located on a continent?

6.    What states have the Pacific Ocean touching them?

7.    What continents are in both the Eastern and Southern Hemispheres?

8.    What do black dots on a map usually represent?

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GROW Week 12

1.     Carson City is to Nevada as _________________ is to Vermont.

2.    Find a country in Central America that is not on the Caribbean Sea.

3.    Is Hawaii considered an island state or a peninsula?

4.    What two countries in South America are landlocked?

5.    What is the capital of New Hamshire, the state which cast the deciding vote to ratify the Constitution?

6.    Through which continent does the Equator, Prime Meridian, and the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer pass?

7.    What is the symbol usually found next to Washington, DC? What does it mean?

8.    The Pacific Ocean touches all continents except which two?

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GROW: Week #14

1.  How many countries are in Central America?

2.  Is Australia a continent or and island?

3.  Unscramble the following capital city:        tesmacnaro
     This city is the capital of what state?

4.  What ocean is off the East coast of the United States?

5.  What large mountain range is found north of India?

6.  Which hemispheres does the Tropic of Cancer pass through?

7.  Where is the mouth of the Nile River located?

8.  If you traveled from the capital of Arizona to the capital of California, in what direction would you have gone?

1.  What South American country has the largest land area?

2.  Name three states with a "panhandle".

3.  Which is larger, the Mediterranean or the North Sea?

4.  What state is bordered by only one other state?

5.  What sea surrounds Jamaica?

6.  What states border Illinois?

7.  Unscramble the following state and determine its capital city:           canigimh

8.  If you traveled northeast of Arkansas, would you probably pass through Colorado, Mississippi, or Kentucky?

1.  Which city is farthest south:     Phoenix, AZ, or Austin, TX?

2.  What state is divided in two by a lake?

3.  About how far is the capital of Maryland from the capital of Delaware in a straight line distance:
55-60 miles, 80-120 miles, or 100-200 miles?

4.  what strait separates North America from Asia?

5.  The Grand Canyon is in the northwest part of Arizona. What large river passes through it?

6.  Name the island group southeast of Florida that is a popular tourist attraction?

7.  Which city is farthest east:      Miami, Florida or Augusta, Maine?

8.  Would the distance from Denver, Colorado, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, be closer to 300, 500, or 800 miles?

1.  San Diego, California, is in what part of California?

 2.  How many symbols for capital cities are there on a map of the United States.

3.  In what part of Missouri is its capital city located?

4.  What country borders Mexico to the North and what two countries border it the South?

5.  What direction is the capital of Texas from the capital of Oklahoma?

6.  What is a bay?

7.  If you could travel 500 miles a day, what would be the farthest city you could reach in one day if you were in Chicago, Illinois?
         Dallas, Texas         St. Louis, Missouri     Lincoln, NE

8.  Is Minneapolis or St. Paul the capital of Minnesota?  Why might people be confused about this?

1.  The Panama Canal connects what two bodies of water?

2.  What group of small islands form the long tail of Alaska?

3.  Which continent has the larger land area:
             South America      or          Africa?

4.  Which capital city in South America is not on a coast:
         Caracas         Georgetown         or      Santiago

5.  The Arctic Ocean touches what three continents?

6.  What body of water separates the tiny finger of Western Mexico from mainland Mexico?

7.  What part of a map will usually tell you about direction?

8.  How do you spell the capital of Honduras?   

1.  If you were in Savanah, Georgia, on what coast would you be located?

2.  Name a large bay east of Maine.

3.  Bolivia, a country in South America, has two capital cities. What are their names?

4.  Is Chicago, Illinois, located on a bay? How do you know for sure?

5.  Is the capital of Alaska east or west of the capital of Hawaii?

6.  What part of the United States is more mountainous?

7.  Name the gulf that is just south of Alaska.

8.  What country controls the island of Greenland?

1.  What states border the Gulf of Mexico?

2.  Which state does the Arctic Circle pass through?

3.  What ocean would you have to cross if you wanted to travel from Eastern Africa to India?

4.  On what island do you find the capital of Hawaii?

5.  About half of Canada's coastlines are on what ocean?

6.  What is the capital of Nevada?

7.  Which state would probably have the warmest temperatures year round, Missouri or Mississippi?
Why?

8.  In what hemisphere can you find the Rock of Gibraltar?

1.  What state has a capital city named Montpelier?

2.  Which is farther: Columbus, Ohio, to Indianapolis, Indiana, or Columbus, Ohio, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania?

3.  Locate a large lake in Utah. What is its name?

4.  What is the capital of Montana, the state where Glacier National Park is located?

5.  Which is farther:   New York to Portugal or Venezuela to Portugal?

6.  Locate and name a large lake in Eastern Africa.

7. What is the capital of the state that has a border with California and Nevada and a coastline on the Pacific?

8.  What large country borders France directly to the south?

1.  Whose capital city is Boise?

2.  In which direction would you have gone if you traveled from Madison, Wisconsin, to Bismark, North Dakota?

3.  Name two of the three large gulfs that are close to the United States?

4.  Two states have a city named Kansas City. Name the state that calls Kansas City its capital.

5.  To which continent does Lebanon belong?

6.  What country does Alaska border to the east?

7.  Is the capital of Minnesota located to the west or east of the Mississippi River?

8.  Name the capital of Massachusetts. Is it located on a coast?

1.  If a map scale shows that 1" equals 400 miles, what would 2 1/2" equal?

2.  What is the capital of the only state outside of the North American continent and also the southernmost state?

3.  What country controls the Falkland Islands off the coast of South America?

4.  What is the capital of Alabama?

5.  What large bay is located north of Lake Superior in Canada?

6.  What is an Isthmus?

7.  Which hemisphere has more water: the Souther or Northern?

8.  The Atlantic Ocean touches what five continents?

1.  The needle on a compass always points to what pole?

2.  What is the capital of the state whose neighbors are Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona?

3.  Name a large bay found between Maryland and Virginia.

4.  In what direction would you be headed if you were going from the South Pole to Australia?

5.  If you wanted to find how far an inch on a map represented in actual distance, where would you look?

6.  Is the capital of Nebraska in a mountain range? If so, which one?

1.  If you were traveling from Colorado to Mississippi, would your elevation be increasing or decreasing?

2.  Which of the following states have a capital city located near the geographic center of the state?

     Missouri,   Texas,   Wyoming,   Ohio,   Maine

3.  Looking at a physical map of Europe, would you be more above sea level in Spain or England?

4.  Which hemisphere has more water, the Eastern or Western?

5.   Central America connects North America to South America. What is the geographical term for this type of landform?

6.  Many times a map scale will show distances in both miles and _________________________.

7.  Which southeastern state has a capital named Richmond?

8.  Which one of the Great Lakes is entirely in the United States?

1.  To travel from Australia to South Africa. Which direction would you need to go?

2.  If you are drawing a map in which the scale is 1" equals 2 miles. How many inches would it take to show 12 miles?

3.  Jackson is to Mississippi as __________________ is to Kentucky.

4.  What direction wouldyou travel to get from North America to Europe?

5.  Looking at a map of Europe and Asia, what mountain range seperates Europe from Asia?

6.  Which of the following locations does not fit the order:
Columbus, Ohio; Sacramento, California; Billings, Montana: Albany, New York?

7.  What major city in California is located on a peninsula?

8.  Which has a higher elevation, Greenland or Australia?

1.  Find Alaska on a map.  What part of the state has a peninsula, north or south?

2.  What tributary flows into the Mississippi River where Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri meet?

3.  Name the capital of Nevada. In what part of the state is this city located?

4.  At what point does North America end and South America begin?

5.  What direction is South America from Antarctica?

6.  The Pyrenees Mountains separate what two European countries?

7.  Lake Michigan is what direction from Chicago, Illinois?

8.  When listed alphabetically, what is the capital of the fourth of four states that begins with letter "I"?

1.  Would you be more likely to find reindeer near the Arctic or the Antarctic Circle?

2.  Which is farther east, Newfoundland or Puerto Rico?

3.  If you were traveling from Mexico to Colombia, in what direction would you be going?

4.  What large lake is located high in the Andes Mountains between Peru and Bolivia?

5.  What direction is India from Japan?

6.  Which is farther:
      Los Angeles, CA, to Las Vegas, Nevada    or
       Los Angeles to San Francisco, CA?

7.  In what state is the Mississippi River Delta located?

8.  The city of Shanghai in China is at the mouth of what river?

1.  What river flows along the border of Washington and Oregon?

2.  What do the countries of Canada, United States, and Mexico all have in common?

3.  Name the major river that flows from Utah into Arizona.

4.  What states border Alabama?

5.  If a map shows the straight-line distance between two cities is 3 1/2", and the map scale shows that 1" equals 100 km, what would the actual distance be?

6.  To what continent does Israel belong?


7.  What is the body of water which is part of the Atlantic Ocean between Grat Britain and the European continent?

8.  Looking at a physical map, what part of the United States has the fewest mountains:      west, east, or south?