Planning a cross-country trip and using your atlas

Eric, Mojdeh, Corbin
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Practical geography and basic use of maps:

Planning a trip by making an outline of the cities and terrain to be encountered in a series of cross-country treks.

From your home base of New Orleans you will be traveling by motorized, wheeled vehicle - using vessels and other conveyances when absolutely unavoidable - to ___, ___ .

1) You must list the cities through which you believe your trip will be best taken.
2) Using clues from the atlas, you must describe the general terrain to be enjoyed during the major sections of the trip.
3) Using the atlas scale, you must estimate the approximate length of the journey in the Old English measurement of “miles.”
4) You must make an approximate sketch of the US map, including the cities relevant to your peregrination.
5) One person in your group must report the pertinent facts to the class as the group follows the route in their atlas.

Destinations -
1) NYC
2) Detroit
3) Minneapolis / St Paul
4) Helena, Montana
5) Seattle
6) Los Angeles
7) Acapulco, Mexico
8) Nassau, the Bahamas