North America Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This North America worksheet collection introduces students to the continent's geography, cultures, landforms, climates, resources, and human history through a wide range of reading passages and skill-building activities. Learners explore everything from major landmarks and physical features to capitals, migration patterns, natural resources, and cultural diversity. The worksheets use multiple-choice questions, cloze tasks, matching, inferencing, and short written responses to build a strong foundation in world geography and social studies.

Throughout the collection, students strengthen key academic skills including informational-text comprehension, vocabulary development, map reasoning, context-clue use, and evidence-based writing. They compare landforms, evaluate factual statements, analyze migration, and interpret descriptions of natural and cultural wonders. Together, these activities give students a deep and engaging understanding of North America's physical and human geography.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Continental Wonders
Students read a passage describing North America's countries, major landmarks, and diverse ecosystems such as tundra, deserts, plains, and forests. They identify main ideas, supporting details, and connections between geography and culture. This activity strengthens informational reading, text-evidence skills, and comprehension of continental diversity.
Key Terms: continent, landmarks, tundra, diverse

Map Masters
A multiple-choice map-skills worksheet covering countries, oceans, mountain ranges, and regions like the Arctic and Caribbean. Students use geographic clues and map knowledge to choose the best answer. The worksheet reinforces spatial reasoning, physical-geography vocabulary, and test-taking confidence.
Key Terms: region, peninsula, Arctic, Caribbean

Landform Lookup
Students read descriptive clues and fill in the correct North American landform-such as the Rockies, Great Lakes, or Rio Grande. The activity strengthens landform vocabulary, context-clue skills, and recognition of major physical features.
Key Terms: landforms, valley, mountains, desert

Capital Match
Learners match North American countries-including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and nations of Central America-to their capitals. This strengthens memorization, political-geography knowledge, and global awareness.
Key Terms: capital, nation, geography, country

Terrain Terms
Students choose the correct geographic term (e.g., tundra, archipelago, isthmus, migration) to complete each sentence. This builds vocabulary precision and reinforces understanding of climate zones, movement, and landforms.
Key Terms: archipelago, migration, isthmus, climate zone

True or New
A true/false worksheet covering North American ecosystems, climates, and physical features. Students correct false statements, strengthening accuracy, evaluative thinking, and geographical understanding.
Key Terms: ecosystem, tundra, climate, region

Wonder Match
Students match major physical features-such as the Mississippi River, Mojave Desert, Great Lakes, and Appalachian Mountains-to their descriptions. This reinforces descriptive understanding and recognition of landforms.
Key Terms: peninsula, desert, river, range

Landmark Logic
Students match clues about famous natural and cultural landmarks like the Grand Canyon, Chichen Itza, Niagara Falls, and Denali. This improves inferencing, cultural-geography knowledge, and close reading.
Key Terms: landmark, canyon, civilization, waterfall

Resource Routes
A fill-in-the-blank worksheet covering North American natural resources, industries, and trade networks. Students identify items such as agriculture, minerals, energy, and transportation routes using textual clues.
Key Terms: industry, resource, agriculture, trade

Migration Movers
Students read a passage explaining how migration-historical and modern-shapes North American culture, economy, and communities. This activity builds cause-and-effect understanding, evidence-based comprehension, and knowledge of cultural diversity.
Key Terms: migration, culture, traditions, regions

Nature's Power
A reading passage describing North America's natural forces such as volcanoes, glaciers, deserts, and forests. Students learn how these features shape landscapes and ecosystems. The worksheet strengthens physical-geography comprehension and earth-science vocabulary.
Key Terms: glaciers, volcanoes, deserts, forests

Cultural Threads
Students read a passage explaining North America's cultural makeup-from Indigenous nations to global immigration. It highlights diverse languages, customs, and celebrations across major cities. The worksheet strengthens inferential reasoning and cultural understanding.
Key Terms: Indigenous, customs, diversity, traditions