The Eart
What causes the seasons?
Earth's tilt causing different amounts of light to fall on certain areas at different times.
What natural resource most attracted European traders to Canada?
Animal Furs
These act like large rivers in the Earth's oceans and help spread Earth's heat and shape climates?
Ocean currents
Which type of economic system has the highest level of government control?
Command economy
Native American cultures were disrupted when the Europeans arrived and introduced this.
Unfamiliar diseases
The hottest interior part of Earth is called?
The core
Where is Canada's population density highest?
In cities along the United States border
This is heaviest near the equator, where air usually rises?
Precipitation
A developed country is likely to have what type of economy?
Strong
What event doubled the size of the United States in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
Day and night are caused by
The rotation of Earth on its axis
Most of Canada's border with the United States falls into which of Canada's six main climate regions?
Continental warm summer
The high latitudes, also known as this ______, get less direct sunlight because the sun is near or below the horizon all year round.
Polar zones
Which describes the type of buying and selling that takes place within a country?
Domestic trade
NAFTA is a trade agreement between whom?
America, Canada, and Mexico
When it is daytime in New York City?
It is nighttime on the opposite side of the Earth
The heartland of Canada, where the majority of Canadians live and work, is located where?
Around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
The Canary Current and the Labrador Current move cool water from the poles to the tropics, where the cool water ____________ the air near it.
Chills
Which of the following is a likely result of trade barriers?
Protection of domestic producers from competition
The organization USAID provides what?
Food aid
Time in the region surrounding the Prime Meridian is sometimes called?
Universal Time
Britain guaranteed the rights of French Canadians in what Act?
The Quebec Act of 1775.
Climates are mainly shaped by wind, precipitation and this?
Temperature
Which of the following are ways to increase economic development?
Investing in education and training
So much water is diverted from the Colorado River to supply drinking water and to irrigate crops that the river no longer what?
Reaches the sea in most years