Test – The Geography of the USA

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 530.

Geographical position

1. Where is the United States of America situated?

2. What is the total area of the United States?

3. What countries does the United States border on?

4. What waters is the United States washed by?

5. How many time zones is the continental US divided into?

6. What are the five main geographical divisions that the United States can be divided into?

1. The United States lies in the central part of the North American continent with the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific to the west, Canada to the north, and Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.

2. The United States covers an area of 9,372,571 km²

3. The United States borders on Canada in the North and on Mexico in the South.

4. The mainland of the United States is washed by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the Atlantic Ocean in the east, and the Gulf of Mexico in the south-east. Moreover, Alaska is washed by the Arctic Ocean on the north; Pacific Ocean on the south; Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, a Bering Strait on the west. Hawaii by the Pacific Ocean.

5. Four. They are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Each zone is one hour different.

6. The United States may be divided into the following five main geographical divisions:

· The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain

· The Appalachian Highland (White Mountains, Green Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Catskill Mountains, Smoky Mountains)

· The Interior Plain

· The Cordilleran, or Western Highland (Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada)

· The Pacific Slope, Coast Ranges