US Geography

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US Geography
State Descriptions
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10 points This state is East of the
Mississippi River

• State thats part of the corn belt.
• Has a lot of smokestack industries.
• Has knobs.
• Farms cover 80 of the state.
• Produces a lot of steel.
• Has a big race every year.
• Illinois Indiana Ohio
  Michigan

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20 points This state is East of the
Mississippi River

• Has no major minerals as resources.
• Many chemicals (such as gunpowder) are
  manufactured in this state.
• Has a lot of poultry (chickens).
• 1st state to ratify the constitution.
• The 2nd smallest state.
• Delaware Rhode Island New Jersey
  Virginia

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30 points This state is East of the
Mississippi River

• Has lagoons.
• Shares a swamp (with an unusual name)
• with a state next to it.
• Grows a lot of peanuts.
• Has the empire city of the south.
• Has a mountain with people on it.
• Grows a lot of peaches.
• Mississippi Georgia Alabama
  Louisiana

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40 points This state is East of the
Mississippi River

• Was part of another state until it split away.
• Has a lot of coal and miners.
• Has some honey and apples.
• Makes some stone, clay, and glass products.
• Has two panhandles.
• North Dakota South Carolina Virginia West
  Virginia

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50 points This state is East of the
Mississippi River

• Has the biggest mountains in this section of the
  country.
• Has had the worlds worst weather.
• Has over 1000 lakes.
• Has a lot of granite.
• State where you can Live free or die.
• New York Maine Minnesota New
  Hampshire

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10 Points This state is west of the
Mississippi River

• Big part of the dust bowl.
• Has a lot of oil.
• One of the panhandle states.
• A place where Native Americans were sent.
• Had a building that was blown up.
• Arkansas Nebraska West Virginia
  Oklahoma

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20 Points This state is west of the
Mississippi River

• Has a lot of forests with thick growths of trees.
• Grows a lot of apples.
• Can be very wet and rainy.
• Has a big volcano.
• Originally called The Territory of Columbia.
• Oregon Washington Wyoming
  Hawaii

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30 Points This state is west of the
Mississippi River

• Has a palace made of corn.
• Has one of the biggest bison herds in the country
• Has a lot of sheep and beef cattle.
• Has a lot of hills and small mountains.
• Has a mountain with four faces on it.
• Georgia North Dakota South Dakota
  Wyoming

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40 Points This state is west of the
Mississippi River

• Part of the cotton belt.
• Has diamonds as a natural resource.
• A recent president is from here.
• Has hot springs.
• Has a city famous in the 60s civil rights
  movement.
• Arkansas Texas Mississippi
  Alabama

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50 Points This state is west of the
Mississippi River

• Has over 60 glaciers.
• Has a large lumber industry.
• Has big, wide open skies.
• Has gold, silver, and copper mining.
• A state with a lot of buffalo / bison.
• Has some mountains which have
• NEVER been climbed.
• Alaska Montana Washington
  Idaho

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10 Points This state starts with the letter M

• Has a big river running through it.
• Much of this state was formed by glaciers.
• A state with a lot of strip mines (iron ore).
• Has a lot of lakes (10,000?).
• Has the twin cities.
• Minnesota Michigan Montana
  Missouri

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20 Points This state starts with the letter M

• The only state that touches just one other state.
• Has a lot of pine trees
• The first place in the U.S. the sun
• touches each morning.
• Has a lot of fishing.
• Known for its lobsters.
• Massachusetts Michigan Montana
  Maine

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30 Points This state starts with the letter M

• Has a lot of Revolutionary War history.
• Has a very busy seaport protected
• by a famous cape.
• Very important manufacturing state.
• Had witchcraft trials.
• Near Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard.
• Massachusetts Mississippi Maine
  Michigan

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40 Points This state starts with the letter M

• Has the first Coca Cola bottling plant.
• Has a lot of magnolias.
• Has a delta and levees, with lots of fishing.
• Has petroleum and natural gas.
• Has a large, dirty river that separates
• the east from the west.
• Minnesota Michigan Missouri
  Mississippi

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50 Points This state starts with the letter M

• Has our countrys main Navy base.
• Separated into two parts by water.
• Place where our national anthems
• words were written.
• Has a very important waterway.
• Near the nations capital.
• Maryland Michigan Missouri
  Massachusetts

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10 Points This state has a major river in it
or next to it

• Grows the most amount of corn in the country.
• Had a lot of prairies.
• Has a lot of coal deposits.
• Has a big river on its western side.
• Is a major transportation center.
• Has a big city on a big lake.
• Illinois Indiana Michigan
  Minnesota

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20 Points This state has a major river in it
or next to it

• The lowest state in elevation.
• Its main city is actually below sea level.
• Has some oil.
• Has a big party every year.
• Had a devastating storm hit it.
• Mississippi Florida Louisiana
  Texas

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30 Points This state has a major river in it
or next to it

• Has the deepest lake in the country.
• Has the city of roses.
• Gives us 20 of our countrys lumber.
• Has good salmon fishing.
• Has beavers who like all the trees.
• Washington Oregon California
  Maine

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40 Points This state has a major river in it
or next to it

• Has plains, plateaus, and lowlands.
• Actually has two large river systems.
• Borders 8 other states.
• Has a big arch.
• Has a boot heel.
• Missouri Illinois Minnesota
  Iowa

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50 Points This state has a major river in it
or next to it

• Is the rooftop of America.
• Has over 50 tall mountains.
• Has a lot of cattle.
• Home of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
• Has a city a mile high.
• Wyoming Arizona Montana
  Colorado

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10 points This state is a
warm state

• Blackbeard hid out here.
• The first ever flight took place here.
• Leads the nation in tobacco production.
• Has some fine colleges and universities in its
  research triangle.
• Has Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.
• Produces a lot of furniture.
• Alabama Mississippi Florida
  North Carolina

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20 points This state is a
warm state

• Has one of the biggest lakes in this half
• of the country.
• The state is dominated by one religious group.
• Has a place that holds land speed records.
• Has Dinosaur National Monument.
• Touches other states at the four corners.
• Utah Colorado Arizona
  New Mexico

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30 points This state is a
warm state

• Some people think aliens landed here.
• Has a lot of desert and cactus.
• Grows a lot of chili peppers.
• Has large caverns.
• Part of the four corners.
• Utah Colorado Arizona
  New Mexico

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40 points This state is a
warm state

• Has our largest Native American population.
• Has a very big canyon.
• A big part of this state is desert.
• Home of Cactus League baseball.
• Part of the sun belt.
• One of the four corners states.
• Utah Colorado Arizona
  New Mexico

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50 points This state is a
warm state

• Has a lot of large farms.
• Unusual because it has a steel industry
• in this part of the country.
• Grows a lot of tobacco.
• Has a gulf and a delta to its south.
• Has diversified farming.
• Has a large percent of African Americans.
• Mississippi Georgia Alabama
  Louisiana

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10 Points This state has a
large population

• Has the same name as a large lake.
• Has a long coastline.
• Has a lot of vacation areas
• Known for production of automobiles
• Divided into 2 parts
• Maryland Florida Michigan
  California

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20 Points This state has a large
population

• Has a large dairy industry
• Has the city of brotherly love.
• Has a large supply of coal.
• Produces a lot of chocolate products.
• Leads the country in iron and steel production
• Wisconsin Pennsylvania Illinois
  Indiana

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30 Points This state has a large
population

• Has a lot of open farmland.
• Has a lot of smokestack industries.
• A lot of cities that manufacture automobile
  parts.
• Has a great lake to its north.
• Has a river to its south with a familiar name.
• Pro football players would like to end up here.
• Ohio Michigan Pennsylvania
  Illinois

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40 Points This state has a large
population

• Has many garden crops.
• Does a lot of research to help develop new
  products.
• You might be part of Monopoly here.
• People may go here to gamble.
• Although small, is quite densely populated.
• Nevada New Jersey New York Rhode
  Island

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50 Points This state has a large
population

• This state is usually very warm.
• Has an important river to its south.
• A lot of cowboys may live here.
• Important place for NASA.
• Produces a lot of oil.
• New Mexico Tennessee Texas
  Florida

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10 Points These states have
very few people

• Has a lot of glaciers.
• Has our highest mountain.
• Has long summer daylight and winter darkness
• Gets very cold.
• Our biggest state.
• Montana Texas Alaska
  Wisconsin

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20 Points These states have
very few people

• Is the geographical center of North America.
• Became a state on the same day as another state.
• Its soil is its most valuable resource.
• Has badlands.
• Borders Canada.
• Montana Minnesota South Dakota North
  Dakota

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30 Points These states have
very few people

• Has a lot of rivers with waterfalls.
• Has some very large canyons.
• Has a snake river.
• Has a lot of cattle and sheep.
• Our biggest potato producer.
• Colorado Idaho Maine
  Arizona

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(37) 40 Points These states have very few people

• Was its own country for 14 years.
• Has a large dairy industry.
• Has very green mountains.
• 3/4 of the land is forests.
• People like its maple syrup.
• Vermont Wisconsin New Hampshire
  Maine

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50 Points These states have
very few people

• Has our countrys first big national park.
• Has the Devils Tower.
• Half the land is owned by the government.
• Has a lot of geysers and buttes.
• Has an area that once was a HUGE volcano.
• California Hawaii Montana
  Wyoming

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10 Points This state has a large
tourism industry

• Has a lot of active volcanoes.
• Can have tidal waves / tsunamis.
• A very small state but 1500 miles long.
• Has a famous harbor.
• Our only all island state.
• Rhode Island Alaska Hawaii
  Florida

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20 Points This state has a large
tourism industry

• Has a large peninsula.
• Mostly about 100 feet above sea level.
• One place where the space program has a center.
• Large citrus industry.
• Has a lot of alligators.
• Florida Texas Louisiana
  Mississippi

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30 Points This state has a large
tourism industry

• Has a lot of mountains and forests.
• Has a great big statue.
• Has a city so nice they named it twice.
• Has the most famous waterfalls in the states.
• Has had terrorist attacks.
• New Jersey New York Pennsylvania
  Connecticut

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40 Points This state has a large
tourism industry

• 90 of the land is government owned.
• Has a famous dam.
• Has a lot of desert and mountains.
• Has some cities with neon lights.
• Some people hope to get a lot of money here.
• Nevada California New York
  New Jersey

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50 Points This state has a large
tourism industry

• Has our largest population.
• Our third largest state.
• Has great farms, large deserts, and many
  mountains.
• Our biggest agricultural producer.
• Our golden state.
• Alaska New York California
  Texas

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10 Points This state is primarily
a farming state

• Has a lot of hogs.
• Is part of the corn belt.
• Has major rivers running to its east and west.
• Has colonies that make appliances.
• Has some of the best soil in the whole country.
• Biggest cereal producer in the U.S.
• Iowa Kansas Nebraska Illinois

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20 Points This state is primarily
a farming state

• Was once a great desert.
• Has some petroleum and natural gas.
• Part of the corn belt.
• Early settlers were called sod busters.
• Can have bad blizzards, windstorms, and
  tornadoes.
• Used to have millions of bison.
• Kansas Nebraska Iowa
  Illinois

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30 Points This state is primarily
a farming state

• The breadbasket of the world.
• Grows a lot of wheat (1st in U.S.).
• The only state with helium.
• Had a lot of cow towns.
• Can have wild weather hailstorms, blizzards,
  thunderstorms, tornados.
• Directly in the center of the U.S..
• Nebraska Iowa Kansas
  Oklahoma

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40 Points This state is primarily
a farming state

• Has some plantations.
• Grows a lot of tobacco.
• Was the first state to secede from the Union.
• Has some big resorts along its coast.
• Grows some peanuts.
• Also has a big textile industry.
• Georgia Texas North Carolina South
  Carolina

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50 Points This state is primarily
a farming state

• Over half this state is covered with forests.
• Has a city famous for brewing beer.
• Has a lot of outdoor vacation spots and
  activities.
• Affected greatly by the ice ages.
• Known as Americas Dairyland.
• Minnesota Michigan Illinois
  Wisconsin

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10 Points This is a random state anywhere in
the country

• Stores some of our countrys gold.
• Has tobacco and coal.
• Has a lot of caves.
• Has horse farms and a big race every year.
• They have blue grass?
• Some people think they have good chicken.
• Indiana Illinois Michigan
  Kentucky

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20 Points This is a random state anywhere in
the country

• State known as The Mother of Presidents.
• Has mountains the same color as the sky.
• Has a tomb with unknown soldiers.
• Is a leading producer of chemical products.
• Home of the Pentagon.
• Maryland Virginia West Virginia
  Washington

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30 Points This is a random state anywhere in
the country

• Sometimes called a border state between the north
  and south.
• The home of country music.
• This state was almost called Franklin.
• Has a mountain where you can lookout.
• Home of The King.
• Tennessee Kentucky Alabama
  Mississippi

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40 Points This is a random state anywhere in
the country

• Has some of the nicest homes in the U.S..
• Has a lot of sailing.
• Definitely not one of biggest states.
• An early shipbuilding state.
• Makes a lot of costume jewelry.
• New Jersey Vermont Connecticut Rhode
  Island

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50 Points This is a random state anywhere in
the country

• The insurance capital of the world.
• Has a lot of fishing.
• Its one side has a lot of forests.
• Has been a center for inventions.
• Our third smallest state.
• Printing and publishing are big industries
• Home to Yale University.
• New Jersey Delaware Maryland
  Connecticut

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