5th - SS Chapter 2 Geography - part 1

Question 0

What is the capital city of Louisiana?

Answer 0

Baton Rouge

Question 1

Explains where a place is in relation to another place or places.

Answer 1

Relative location

Question 2

What state borders Louisiana on the north?

Answer 2

Arkansas

Question 3

What state borders Louisiana on the east?

Answer 3

Mississippi

Question 4

What state borders Louisiana on the west?

Answer 4

Texas

Question 5

What large body of water borders Louisiana on the south?

Answer 5

Gulf of Mexico

Question 6

What is the name of the large river that forms part of Louisiana eastern border and flows south thought southeastern Louisiana?

Answer 6

Mississippi River

Question 7

What is the name of the river that forms part of Louisiana’s western border?

Answer 7

Sabine River

Question 8

What is the name of the large lake in southeastern Louisiana?

Answer 8

Lake Pontchartrain

Question 9

What is the name of the large city in northwestern Louisiana?

Answer 9

Shreveport

Question 10

What is the name of the very large city in southeastern Louisiana that is near Lake Pontchartrain?

Answer 10

New Orleans

Question 11

What is the largest river in Louisiana?

Answer 11

Mississippi River

Question 12

What is one of the meaning of the name of the Mississippi River?

Answer 12

1. “Great River”
2. “River of the Holy Spirit”
3. “Nile of America”

Question 13

What is the second largest river in Louisiana?

Answer 13

Red River

Question 14

What is Louisiana’s location?

Answer 14

It lies between 28 and 33 degrees north latitude and 89 and 94 degrees west longitude

Question 15

What time zone is Louisiana located in?

Answer 15

Central time zone

Question 16

What is the name of the largest manmade lake in Louisiana which is located on the Sabine River?

Answer 16

Toledo Bend

Question 17

What is the largest natural lake in Louisiana?

Answer 17

Lake Pontchartrain

Question 18

Are formed as the rivers seek shorter, straighter courses through flat terrain?

Answer 18

Cutoff lakes

Question 19

What is another name for cutoff lakes?

Answer 19

Oxbow lakes - because the shape reminded early settlers of the bow-shaped harnesses worn by their oxen.

Question 20

Usually, a small and sluggish creek; may also be miles long and deep enough for navigation.

Answer 20

Bayou

Question 21

What is called “the longest Main Street in the world”?

Answer 21

Bayou Lafourche

Question 22

Are the natural riverbanks built up over time by the silt deposited by flooding?

Answer 22

Natural Levees

Question 23

A seasonal flood forest

Answer 23

Swamp

Question 24

Are the routes the Mississippi River takes to merge with the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 24

Passes

Question 25

Is a wet, treeless prairie covered with water and grasses.

Answer 25

Marsh