Question

Analyze the map below and answer the question that follows.
A map of North America and Central America. A yellow arrow is pointing to the body of water between California and Mexico.
Image courtesy of NASA

The yellow arrow on the map above points to which of the following bodies of water?
A.
the Gulf of Mexico
B.
the Gulf of California
C.
Hudson Bay
D.
Baffin Bay

Answer 1

B. the Gulf of California

The body of water between the Baja California peninsula and mainland Mexico is the Gulf of California (also called the Sea of Cortez). The Gulf of Mexico is on the U.S./Mexico east coast; Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay are far north in Canada.