North America Chapter 6 Map Study

What body of water separates the West Indies from South America?

Caribbean Sea

Name the large Caribbean island that guards the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico.

Cuba

What two peninsulas border the Gulf of Mexico?

Florida, Yucatan

Which of the Great Lakes does not border Canada? Which states border this lake?

Lake Michigan; Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana

List the states that border Canada.

Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

What two bodies of water separate Greenland from Baffin Island in Canada?

Baffin Bay, Davis Strait

Into what body of water does the Mackenzie River empty?

Beaufort Sea

What Canadian island is closest to the North Pole and to Greenland?

Ellesmere Island;

What province and territory Alaska?

Yukon Territory, British Columbia

What countries border Mexico?

United States, Guatemala, Belize

What large island belongs to the province of British Columbia?

Vancouver Island

What seas and gulf border Alaska?

Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska

The Panama Canal links what two bodies of water?

Caribbean Sea (Atlantic), and Pacific Ocean

What gulf separates Baja California from the rest of Mexico?

Gulf of California

What two countries share and island in the Caribbean Sea?

Haiti and Dominican Republic

What bay lies to the North of Ontario and west of the Ungava Peninsula?

Hudson Bay

The Mississippi River serves as a boundary for what states?

Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois,Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Which countries touch the Tropic of Cancer

Mexico, Bahamas

Which Middle American countries border the 'Pacific Ocean?

Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama

In what state does the Missouri River join the Mississippi?

Missouri

List the provinces that which border the Gulf of St. Lawrence?

Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward island

Which territory contains the Great Bear and Slave Lakes?

Northwest Territories

What river forms the boundary between Mexico and the United States?

Rio Grande

Which states border Mexico?

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California