1. United States Features

2. Standards Geographic Understandings SS5G1 The student will locate important places in the United States. a. Locate important physical features; include the Grand Canyon, Salton Sea, Great Salt Lake, and the Mojave Desert. b. Locate important man-made places; include the Chisholm Trail; Pittsburgh, PA; Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk, NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; and Montgomery, AL.

3. (shows cardinal directions)
Understanding Maps
Title of map
(subject of the Map)
Key or Legend
(explains symbols)
Scale
(Measures Distance)
Compass Rose
(shows cardinal directions)
Insert Map
(small map within
a larger map)

4. United States Physical Features
Pittsburgh SD ND MT ID NV CA OR WA UT WY NE CO OK TX LA FL MN IA IL ME AZ NM KS WI OH MI NY VT IN MO AR KY TN NH PA RI MS AL SC NC GA VA WV MA CT NJ DE MD AK HI
Gettysburg
Great Salt Lake
The Chisholm Trail
Abilene
Abilene
Kitty Hawk
Grand Canyon
Wichita
Mohave Desert
Salton Sea
El Reno
Montgomery
Ft. Worth
Waco
San Antonia
Austin
Kingsville
Pearl Harbor
Kings Ranch

5. A Salty Sea
The Salton Sea is the largest lake in the state of California. It is a large depression about 240 feet below sea level. The Colorado river flooded over to fill it and made the Salton sea. The water is very salty.
California
Salton Sea

6. The Grand Canyon Arizona
The Grand Canyon is a deep gorge in northwestern Arizona. It is about one mile deep and 277 miles long. Scientists say that the Colorado river formed the canyon by cutting through layers of rock over millions. The colors into the rocks make the Grand Canyon a beautiful sight
Grand Canyon
Colorado River
Arizona

7. A Massive Desert
The Mohave Desert Covers about 25,000 square miles in southeastern California. It has flat desert areas and some mountain ranges. And it’s hot-normal summer temperatures in Death Valley are around 120 degrees.!
California
Mohave Desert

8. An Enormous Lake
The Great Salt Lake is even bigger than the Salton Sea. Located in Utah, it is the largest lake in the Western United States. Because it is so salty people can float in the Great Salt Lake quite easily.
Great Salt Lake
Utah

9. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
A City built at the crossing of the Allegheny River, Monongahela River, and Ohio River, the Golden Triangle is a pointed outcropping of land where these three rivers converge. The rivers helped create the economy of this city in the days before railroads and automobiles.
Steel is manufactured in this city
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania ciy that is one of he world’s largest steel manufacturing centers.

10. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The location of one of the biggest battles of the Civil war, the geography of Gettysburg helped determine the outcome of the war. The rocky ridges and hills around the area gave lookout points and protection to the Union troops while the Confederate troops struggled in the lowlands.
Many Americans died here in a Civil War battle
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania town where famous Civil war battle was fought.

11. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
The site of the first flight of the Wright brothers is a sandy barrier island on the Outer Banks region of North Carolina, bowing out into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast. The wind of the coastal region helped the Wright brothers get off the ground.
This windy spot was good place to fly airplanes
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Place on North Carolina coast where the Wright Brothers made
the first airplane flight.

12. Montgomery, Alabama
African Americans boycotted public buses in this city
Located on the banks of the Alabama river, it was a major port for the movement of cotton before the Civil war.
Alabama
Montgomery
City where Martin Luther King, Jr. led a famous bus boycott.

13. The Chisholm Trail
A dirt trail created in the late 1800s helped to move cattle from Texas to the Kansas Pacific railway in Abilene, Kansas.
Cowboys were very familiar with this route through Texas.
The Chisholm Trail OK
El Reno
Wichita
Ft. Worth
Waco
Austin
Abilene
San Antonio
Kings Ranch KS
Trail through Texas taking cattle to market.

14. Pearl Harbor
A small inlet on the southern side of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, this harbor was used by the U S. military to build a naval and air base at a convenient midpoint between the S.S. and Japan. When it was bombed by the Japanese, the U.S. entered World war II.
The surprise attack here brought America into World war II
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Hawaii naval base attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941