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
The Mississippi River serves as a boundary for what states?
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois,Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
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;
List the provinces that which border the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward island
What large island belongs to the province of British Columbia?
Vancouver Island
What province and territory Alaska?
Yukon Territory, British Columbia
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
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
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
What countries border Mexico?
United States, Guatemala, Belize