Florida Map Study Answer the following questions below as you study the map of Florida. You may want to do the map study once a day for a few days until you are sure you know the map well. Then move on to the geography drill on the next two pages.
1.
Miami-Dade county is in the northeast, northwest, or southeast of Florida?
2.
Is Fort Lauderdale north or south of Miami?
3.
What two large bodies of water surround Florida?
4.
The Florida Keys lay between what two bodies of water?
5.
Is the city of Tallahassee closer to the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean?
6.
Is the city of Kissimmee north or south of Orlando?
7.
What two states border Florida?
8.
What two counties make up the southernmost tip of Florida?
9.
Which of these cities is on the East Coast of Florida—Clearwater, Saint Augustine, or Sarasota?
10.
Which of these counties is not in the Florida Panhandle—Santa Rosa, Jackson, Polk, or Calhoun?
Florida Geography Drill Now that you are familiar with the map of Florida, use it to answer the following questions. See if you can answer them all in less than five minutes. Once you are done, set the map and drill aside for a few days. Try the drill again and see if you can still do it in less than five minutes. Can you get your time down to less than three minutes? Less than two minutes?
1.
What northern Florida county holds the state capital of Tallahassee?
2.
What county’s seat lies on an island off the coast of Florida?
3.
What county touches both Alabama and Georgia?
4.
What county lies against Lake Okeechobee and has the county seat of Okeechobee?
5.
What is the northernmost county that also lies against the Atlantic Ocean?
6.
What four counties border Apalachee Bay?
7.
What county’s seat is Pensacola?
8.
What county sits between Santa Rosa County and Walton County?
9.
What county borders Georgia and has a county seat that matches the county name?
