Name That Place

Name That Place is an image identification challenge presented to the students of GEOG 102, Geography of the United States and Canada. The images were all taken somewhere in the United States or Canada. Examine the image, and answer the question. Be the first person from class to hand me a piece of paper containing your name and the correct answer, and get 5 extra credit points. That's right, 5 points! No phone-ins or emails. You must be the first to track me down and hand me the paper containing your answer. You can submit only one answer in any 6 hour period, and the total maximum points you can achieve is 20. Wow, 20 points just for this?! I'd have to be a moron to pass this up!

October 23, 2007: This is Laurel Hill in Pennsylvania. What is the county?

Jacob Dively was first to recognize this as Somerset County.

October 30, 2007: This intrepid fool is standing atop Stony Man, high above the Page Valley section of the Shenandoah Valley, with Massanutten Mountain in the background. What physiographic province is he in?

Lora Saxfield correctly reasoned that this had to be the Blue Ridge.

October 31, 2007: What is this city at the Falls of the Ohio?

Joe Saxfield recognized this as Louisville, Kentucky.

This is at the intersection of US 36 and State Route 99. What is the county and the state?

Lora Saxfield used some Wizard of Oz logic and her road atlas to determine this was in Marshall County, Kansas.

 Although an iconic symbol of the West, this species of cactus has a relatively small range. Name the cactus, and the state it is growing in.

Five points to Shannon Shaffer for correctly identifying this as the saguaro cactus in Arizona.

Name this Pacific-bound river seen here in the rainshadow of the Cascade Mountains.

Rhonda Shondelmyer correctly identified this as the Columbia River.

Dropping off Lookout Mountain in northeastern Alabama, this waterfall is named after what Spanish conquistador who explored the southeastern United States in the 16th century?

Shannon Shaffer correctly determined this was DeSoto Falls.

Connecting two islands somewhere in the Northeast Megalopolis, name this one-time record holder for the world's longest suspension bridge.

On a roll, Shannon Shaffer recognized this as the Verrazano Narrows Bridge connecting Staten Island and Long Island in New York City.

Lora Saxfield correctly answered two for five points. The remaining blast furnace row location is still open for another five.

A) Lehigh Valley

This is the Bethlehem Steel works in South Bethlehem.

B) Monongahela Valley

C) Lackawanna Valley

This much older blast furnace row was built between 1841 and 1854 for the Lackawanna Iron mill in Scranton.

In this allegorical reference to the Great Lakes, located in Chicago, the reaching women represents what lake?

Shannon Shaffer tracked this answer down, and found that these women are arranged by elevation of the Great Lakes. The top lady is Lake Superior pouring her water into Lake Huron, who is also receiving water from Lake Michigan, whence it goes to Lake Erie, and finally Lake Ontario who is reaching for the Atlantic Ocean.

The Sarah Spencer is about to lock up the Niagara Escarpment on what canal connecting lakes Ontario and Erie?

Eric Shepner correctly deduced that this was the Welland Canal.

This visual intersection of the Molson Brewery and the Jacques Cartier Bridge can only happen in what city?

Eric Shepner also recognized this as Montreal.

Here I am high above the heart of Sopranoland. The New Jersey Turnpike bridge over the Hackensack River is behind me, the Pulaski Skyway is to the background left. Check your atlases to determine what city skyline is in the background right.

Lora Saxfield triangulated my position on Laurel Hill with the Pulaski Skyway and the Hackensack River to determine the city to the back right had to be Newark.

It is harvest time in western Ohio. The two crops shown in the brown fields are commonly planted in rotation throughout the Midwest. Name both.

Name the city I am in now. There was a celebration that day, so I dressed up.

I took the picture on the left on clear day in April when you could see all the way out onto the Great Plains. I took the picture on the right from the same window one day later after a late-season, upslope blizzard arrived to dump over a foot of snow and shut the city down. What city is it?

Name That Place, Fall 2007 Edition

Name That Place, Fall 2006 Edition