United States Physical Geography

Can you guess these 92 US-related questions?

Also includes rivers or lakes that are partly in the US

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The Great Lakes

31,700 sq mi

Lake Superior

23,000 sq mi

Lake Huron

22,300 sq mi

Lake Michigan

9,910 sq mi

Lake Erie

7,340 sq mi

Lake Ontario

Falls

Biggest Waterfalls in North America

Niagara Falls

Falls in a Wyoming NP

Yellowstone Falls

Falls in a California NP

Yosemite Falls

Lakes

Brackish estuary close to New Orleans

Lake Pontchartrain

Largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere

Great Salt Lake

Largest reservoir in the US

Lake Mead

Lake straddles the border between California and Nevada

Lake Tahoe

Largest freshwater lake in Florida

Lake Okeechobee

Five Longest Rivers

2,341 mi

Missouri

2,202 mi

Mississippi

1,979 mi

Yukon

1,759 mi

Rio Grande

1,450 mi

Colorado

Which Rivers Flow through these Cities?

Dallas

Trinity River

Portland

Willamette River

Sacramento

Sacramento River

Denver

South Platte River

Cincinnati

Ohio River

New York

Hudson River

Washington, D.C.

Potomac River

Atlanta

Chattahoochee River

Phoenix

Salt River

On Which Sounds/Inlets are these Cities Located?

Seattle

Puget Sound

Anchorage

Cook Inlet

Three Major Mountain Ranges

3,000 mi

Rocky Mountains

1,500 mi

Appalachian Mountains

400 mi

Sierra Nevada

Other Mountain Ranges

Mountain range in northeast New York

Adirondacks

Located on the northwest coast of the US

Cascade Range

Located mostly in Missouri and Arkansas

Ozarks

Tallest mountain range in the United States

Alaska Range

Three Highest Peaks

20,310ft

Denali

Former official name

Mount McKinley

18,009 ft

Mount Saint Elias

17,400 ft

Mount Foraker

Highest Peak(s) in...

California

Mount Whitney

Colorado

Mount Elbert

Washington

Mount Rainier

Wyoming

Gannett Peak

Hawaii

Mauna Kea

Mauna Loa

Volcanoes

Supervolcano under a National Park

Yellowstone Supervolcano

Major 1980 eruption

Mount St. Helens

Potentially active volcano, as well the highest peak in Oregon

Mount Hood

Low Points

Lowest point (-279ft)

Badwater Basin

States with a point lower than 0 ft

California

Louisiana

Four Biggest Hawaiian Islands

4,028 sq mi

Hawai'i (The Big Island)

737 sq mi

Maui

597 sq mi

O'ahu

552 sq mi

Kaua'i

Other Islands

Biggest island in Alaska

Kodiak Island

Biggest island in New York

Long Island

"There was once a man from ________"

Nantucket

Islands in New York City

Manhattan Island

Staten Island

Gateway for immigrants

Ellis Island

Island on which the Statue of Liberty is located

Liberty Island

Biggest Islands in Overseas Territories

3,515 sq mi

Puerto Rico

210 sq mi

Guam

Peninsulas

On this peninsula is Nome, AK located

Seward Peninsula

Region in southwest Alaska

Alaska Peninsula

In Los Angeles County

Palos Verdes Peninsula

An US State

Florida Peninsula

A cape that can be viewed as a peninsula

Cape Cod

Two biggest peninsulas in Michigan

Lower Peninsula

Upper Peninsula

Delaware is mostly located here

Delmarva Peninsula

Where Olympic National Park is located

Olympic Peninsula

Bays

Hint: Santa Cruz, CA

Monterey Bay

Hint: Oakland, CA

San Francisco Bay

Connects ^ with the Pacific Ocean

Golden Gate

Hint: Malibu, CA

Santa Monica Bay

Lagoon near Miami, FL

Biscayne Bay

Hint: St. Petersburg, FL

Tampa Bay

Hint: Maryland and Virginia

Chesapeake Bay

Where the Packers play

Green Bay

Hint: Greater Houston, city devastated by a 1900 hurricane

Galveston Bay

Regions

Broad expanse of flat land; stretching from Canada to Texas

Great Plains

The northeast

New England

LA, MS, AL, GA

Deep South

Swampy wetlands in southern Florida

Everglades

Located in Nevada and Utah, endorheic basin

Great Basin

Deserts

Driest desert in North America, near Las Vegas

Mojave Desert

Famous valley located in this desert

Death Valley

Covers the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

Sonoran Desert

Unusual gypsum dune field in New Mexico

White Sands

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4 Comments

Level 80

Sep 30, 2017

Gannett Peak in Wyoming is 13,809 ft.

Grand Teton in Wyoming is 13,775

Please change your quiz

Level 69

Sep 30, 2017

Fixed

Level 43

Feb 14, 2025

That made me feel dumb - I got 62 but missed Lake Tahoe, Niagara Falls, Rio Grande River, Chattahoochee River, Cape Cod, Golden Gate, and the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Level 91

Dec 3, 2025

Some spelling leniency would go a very long way on some of these.