United States Geography

Us Geography

344 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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  1. Complete the sentence about Badlands National Park with the correct year: Badlands was redesignated a national park on November 10, ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Badlands National Park with the correct year: In ______, at the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States assured the Sioux that the Badlands shall forever be the pr…
  3. Complete the sentence about Badlands National Park with the correct year: In ______, however, the treaty was broken and the Badlands were confiscated by the United States.
  4. Complete the sentence about Badlands National Park with the correct year: Supreme Court awarded compensation to the Sioux for the abrogation of the ______ treaty, but the Sioux did not accept the mone…
  5. Complete the sentence about Black Hills with the correct year: After conquering the Cheyenne in ______, the Lakota took the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture.
  6. Complete the sentence about Black Hills with the correct year: By ______, the demographic situation had reversed, with bands of Cheyenne and Arapaho living among a Lakota majority.
  7. Complete the sentence about Black Hills with the correct year: François and Louis de La Vérendrye probably traveled near the Black Hills in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ozarks with the correct year: In ______, Thomas Nuttall wrote that the remnants of Quapaw referred to themselves as "Osark".
  9. Complete the sentence about Ozarks with the correct year: In ______, Congress established Mark Twain National Forest at nine sites in Missouri.
  10. Complete the sentence about Adirondack Mountains with the correct year: The earliest written use of the name was in ______ by Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert in his Mohawk to Dutch glossary, found i…
  11. Complete the sentence about Adirondack Mountains with the correct year: Another early use of the name, spelled Rontaks, was in ______ by French missionary Joseph-François Lafitau.
  12. Complete the sentence about Adirondack Mountains with the correct year: Such words were strongly associated with the region, but they were not yet considered a place name; an English map from ______ l…
  13. Complete the sentence about Adirondack Mountains with the correct year: In ______, the mountains were named Adirondacks by Ebenezer Emmons, the State Geologist for the northern New York State Geologic…
  14. Complete the sentence about Catskill Mountains with the correct year: Nicolaes Visscher I's ______ map of New Netherland located the Landt van Kats Kill at the mouth of Catskill Creek.
  15. Complete the sentence about White Mountains with the correct year: The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation on Cannon Mountain that resembled the craggy profile of a man's face, was a White Mount…
  16. Complete the sentence about Grand Teton National Park with the correct year: The monument was abolished in ______ and most of the monument land was added to Grand Teton National Park.
  17. Complete the sentence about Haleakalā with the correct year: Using this same scale, preliminary estimates of lava-flow hazard zones on Maui made in ______ by the U.S.
  18. Complete the sentence about Kilauea with the correct year: Radiocarbon and paleomagnetic dating identified a major eruption of Kīlauea around ______, the first to be mentioned in Native Hawaiians' ora…
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Milwaukee? Milwaukee developed as an inland port following the 1833 Treaty of ______ and was incorporated in 1846.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Miami? The Miami metropolitan area is the second-most visited city or metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. after ______, with over four million visitors…
  21. Which place completes this sentence about Statue of Liberty? The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in ______ in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 18…
  22. Which place completes this sentence about Golden Gate Bridge? Before the bridge was built, the only practical short route between ______ and what is now Marin County was by boat across a section of Sa…
  23. Which place completes the sentence? The trip from the ______ Ferry Building took 27 minutes.
  24. Which place completes this sentence about Yellowstone National Park? Department of the Interior, the first Secretary of the Interior to supervise the park being ______ Delano.
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Michigan? In the 19th century, Lake Michigan was integral to the development of ______ and the Midwestern United States west of the lake.
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Hudson River? In the eighteenth century, the river valley and its inhabitants were the subject and inspiration of ______ Irving, the first internationally acc…
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Appalachian Mountains? In the early 19th century, ______ Irving proposed renaming the United States either Appalachia or Alleghania.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Manhattan? Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of ______.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Manhattan? Manhattan serves as ______'s economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital…
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Empire State Building? The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, ______, United States.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Central Park? Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in ______, and the first landscaped par…
  32. Which place completes this sentence about White House? In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by British forces in the burning of ______, destroying the interior and charring much…
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Washington Monument? The construction was suspended from 1854 to 1877 due to funding challenges, a struggle for control over the ______ National Monument Soci…
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Washington Monument? The monument was built to honor George ______, the first president of the United States.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about North Carolina? Raleigh is the state's capital and ______ is its most populous and one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.
  36. Which place completes the sentence? The territory's capital is ______ Amalie on the island of St.
  37. Which place completes this sentence about United States Virgin Islands? The islands were named Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes by Christopher ______ in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and t…
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Las Vegas Strip? Las Vegas Boulevard South was previously called Hwy 91, or the Arrowhead Highway, or ______ Highway.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Las Vegas Strip? The Strip was named by ______ police officer and businessman Guy McAfee, after his hometown's Sunset Strip in Hollywood.
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Liberty Bell? The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in _____…
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Liberty Bell? The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in ______, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John Stow, whose surnames appe…
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Liberty Bell? After World War II, ______ allowed the National Park Service to take custody of the bell, while retaining ownership.
  43. Which place completes this sentence about San Andreas Fault? Following the 1906 ______ earthquake, Lawson also concluded that the fault extended all the way into Southern California.
  44. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Erie? The largest city on the lake is Cleveland, anchoring the third largest U.S. metro area in the Great Lakes region, after Greater ______ and Metro De…

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