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, or email with the correct answer, and get 5 extra credit points. That's right, 5 points! No phone-ins. 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!

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

Derek Cross strikes first, recognizing this city as New Orleans.

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.

Bill Hart correctly saw these fields as containing corn (background) and soybean (foreground).

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?

Megan Skebak determined that this city was in fact Denver.

Name this Eastern Shore county on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Bill Hart worked the map to identify this as Queen Annes County, Maryland

Name this lake sitting in the lowland between the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks.

Although numerous students recognized this as Lake Champlain, Bill hart was the first.

The Fayette-Somerset county line in Pennsylvania follows the distant ridge line of Laurel Hill. The cleft in the ridge is a water gap carved by what river?

Dave Ball correctly determined that this gap was carved by the Youghiogheny River.

Here I am in Strangford Cave, the longest in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by what kind of rock?

After getting just about every wrong rock possible, Courtney Leary finally determined that I was in a limestone cave.

This view of Crittenden County shows meander scars, oxbow lakes, and point bar deposits made by what river?

Keri Matson checks in, correctly identify this as the Mississippi River near West Memphis, Arkansas.

Name this Fall Line city.

Charlie Anderson knew this to be Philadelphia.

This view of Penns Valley is in what physiographic province?

Dave Ball correctly identified Centre County, Pennsylvania's Penns Valley as being in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley.

Here I am thrilled to be at the tomb of the only US president that overlooks the Ohio River. Who is he, and what town and state am I in?

Courtney Leary dug this one up as William Henry Harrison in North Bend, Ohio.

That black heap is a waste tailings pile from the continent's most productive nickel mine. Name the town, the state or province, and the physiographic province.

Keri Matson found this nickel mine to be in Sudbury, Ontario, in the Canadian Shield.

Not exactly the North Pole, this is a town in the Central Lowland. What is the county and state it is in?

Justin Foreman correctly located Santa Claus in Spencer County, Indiana.

Looking west toward Targhee Pass and the Continental Divide; what county and state is this?

Charlie Anderson did the map work to correctly determine this westward view on US Route 20 to be in Gallatin County, Montana.

This eastward view from Antelope Island shows cumulus clouds rising on the windward side of what western mountain range?

Maps in hand, Bill Hart worked this out. Antelope Island is in the Great Salt Lake. To the east, the orographic effect of the Wasatch Range is causing the clouds to form over their windward western slope.

This view of the old Rock Island Railroad's vertical lift bridge, and the Jefferson Street draw bridge show that the Des Plaines River is navigable to barge traffic passing through what city?

Keri Matson put the pieces of this puzzle together and identified it as Joliet, Illinois.

The junction of US Routes 24 and 285 seen in the lower part of this image occurs in the Colorado Rocky Mountain valley of what river?

Courtney Leary worked her atlas to come up with the correct answer; Arkansas River Valley just south of Buena Vista.

Name this Colorado county for 5 points.

For all you extra credit geographers out there, Sherrie Ruggeri has helped you out by correctly identifying this as Clear Creek County, Colorado.

Here are the clues for the Colorado Continental Divide Extra Credit Exercise given out in class on Thursday, March 6:

The road in the foreground shown looping down into the valley is a single digit US Route marked as R3 on the map.

The Interstate highway in the valley is marked as R2 on the map.

The Interstate highway in the valley disappears into tunnel T4 on the map.

This view is from Pass 2 on the map.

You can use your Road Atlas to orient yourself to the correct area, and then use the maps on topozone.com to answer the more detailed questions on the exercise.

Here I am at a Bay City power plant in February, but if it were June this ice and snow would be gone and I would be treading water in what Lake Huron bound river?

Keri Matson worked this out to be the Saginaw River.

Name that SHOW CAVE!!!

What commercial tourist caves are represented below?

1) The Bishop's Cap (above left) is in what New York cave that is partially seen by boat (above right)?

Justin foreman correctly determined this to be Howe Caverns.

2) The Double Column (left), and the Stalacpipe Organ (below) can be found in what cave?

Ashley Bevan saw this as Luray Caverns in Virginia.

3) The Crystal King (above left) is the largest stalactite in Ohio, and in what cave?

4) These happy underground wanderers (above center) are chucking pennies into a clay-caked ceiling where thousands of other pennies have already been chucked (above right) in what cave?

3) Ashley Bevan found the Crystal King at -where else- Ohio Caverns.

4) Ashley Bevan also found the Penny Ceiling to be in Indiana's Marengo Cave.

5) This is Rick Sebak and I taking a break outside what Pennsylvania show cave during the filming of WQED's Underground Pittsburgh?

Although clearly a foreign country, this image is nonetheless in North America. What American highway in what state hooks up with this road at the international border?

Justin Foreman correctly determined this highway hook-up to be with Interstate 87 in New York.

Name this Louisiana crop. The only other major producing states are Florida and Hawaii.

Justin Foreman recognized this as sugar cane.

This flower covers the forest floor in northern Michigan during early spring, just before the canopy leafs out. What is it?

Ashley Bevan correctly saw that these were trillium.

This container port is in Red Hook. What is the city? What is the name of the bridge in the background?

Name That Place, Fall 2007 Edition

Name That Place, Spring 2007 Edition

Name That Place, Fall 2006 Edition