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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
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October 23, 2007: This is Laurel Hill in Pennsylvania.
What is the county?
Jacob Dively was first to recognize this as Somerset
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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. |
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October 31, 2007: What is this city at the Falls of the
Ohio?
Joe Saxfield
recognized this as Louisville, Kentucky. |
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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. |
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Name this Pacific-bound river seen here in the
rainshadow of the Cascade Mountains.
Rhonda Shondelmyer
correctly identified this as the Columbia River. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Abandoned blast
furnaces? We have plenty! Name any TWO of the towns
these three abandoned Pennsylvania blast furnace rows
are in. Be sure to designate which images you are
referring to.
Lora Saxfield
correctly answered two for five points. The remaining
blast furnace row location is still open for another
five. |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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Name the city I am in now. There was a celebration that
day, so I dressed up.
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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? |
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Name That Place, Fall 2007 Edition
Name That Place, Fall 2006 Edition
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