Show Geography And You Scientists and astronomers are talking about shooting rockets to the moon and send sendIng log Ing ng satellites aloft And the average citizen is beginning to o think about the universe e. e outer space the planets our solar olar system our galaxy etc Yet many of us know little about the geography of the earth or our cOlin country try itself Do you ou get out a map of your our state or country or the world and study It it If you ou dont don't your geography is s probably rusty Here are arc a few simple questions ques ques- lions which you YOli can use to test yourself Which is crest erest crest north Toronto Canada St 51 Paul Minnesota l Green Grcen GreenBay GreenBay Bay Day Wisconsin or Watertown New York Answer St. St Paul Pau Paulis is north Green flay Day next Watertown next anc and Toronto south o othe of the four Which is south smith San Diego California Cape Cap Can Canaveral a era 1 Florida o or Brownsville Texas Answer Brownsville is f far a r I t the h c ores r res e s t south Cape Canaveral next and San Diego north of the three And about the stale stute did die you know that if you traveled from Savannah Georgia u up the east coast all the way t to New York that you rou could have traveled the same distance distance distance dis dis- tance on the west coast an and remained in one state state Cal fornia That's possible an anit's and its it's also true that the southern south south- ern tip of Nevada reaches a as far a as ag South Carolina Carolin while the northern border i is north of New York Cit City l Other questions Pensacola Florida is west or east of Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit and Chicago Answer Its It's west of both Traverse Travers City Michigan is north o or south of Portland d Maine Answer Its It's north of For Forland Portland Port Port- land also north of Augusta August Maines Maine's capitol If you knew the answers answer to all these questions yo you needn't study your geography But it'll be fun fun if if you doAnd do And you'll learn something |