Statistics for North American Physical Geography

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mountain range stretching from New Mexico to British Columbia	Rocky Mountains	96%
Long river that flows from Minnesota to Louisiana	Mississippi River	93%
Set of five large, freshwater lakes between the US and Canada	Great Lakes	92%
Mountain range stretching from Alabama to Newfoundland	Appalachian Mountains	85%
Strait separating North America from Asia	Bering Strait	82%
Lowest, driest, and hottest location in North America	Death Valley	82%
Largest island in this sea	Cuba	80%
Highest peak in North America	Denali	79%
Large sea east of Central America	Caribbean Sea	77%
Long, narrow peninsula south of the state of California	Baja California	76%
Narrow strip of land that connected North America to South America until 1914	Isthmus of {Panama}	76%
Largest freshwater lake in North America (and, by surface area, in the world)	Lake Superior	76%
Large bay that cuts deeply into eastern Canada	Hudson Bay	74%
Region of swampy wetlands in southern Florida	Everglades	73%
By some measures, the longest river in North America	Missouri River	66%
Peninsula that includes part of southeastern Mexico and parts of Belize and Guatemala	Yucatan Peninsula	65%
River which drains the above lakes	St. Lawrence River	55%
Largest saltwater lake in North America	Great Salt Lake	54%
Largest island in North America (excluding Greenland)	Baffin Island	53%
Broad expanse of mostly fertile prairie in central US and Canada	Great Plains	53%
Range in which above peak is located	Sierra Nevada	48%
Highest peak in contiguous United States	Mount Whitney	29%
Large, arid drainage area of western US that does not open to the sea, includes most of Utah and almost all of Nevada	Great Basin	24%
Longest river in Canada	Mackenzie River	22%
Huge stretch of very old igneous rock covered with a thin layer of soil that covers over half of Canada	Canadian Shield	21%
Swampy region of the above with no roads going through it	{Darién} Gap	19%
Trio of mountain ranges that extend along the eastern, southern, and western coasts of Mexico	Sierra Madre	19%