Climate Zones
a climate or climate zone with warm summers, cool winters, and rainfall all year.
What is Marine West coast?
a vegetation zone of mainly evergreen trees with needles and cones; also refers to the type of vegetation in this zone]
What is a Coniferous Forest?
the average number of people who live in a unit of area, such as a square mile. It measures how crowded an area is.
What is population density?
True or False: The first people to migrate to North America came from Europe.
What is false?
Dry, with little rainfall; also a climate or climate zone with hot, dry summers and cool, dry winters
What is Semiarid?
a type of vegetation or vegetation zone that includes both coniferous and deciduous trees.
What is mixed forest?
These maps often show patterns of land use, or the way people use the land they live on to meet their needs, including farming, forestry, and mining.
What are economic activity maps?
True or False: In 1867, Canadians won the right to govern themselves.
What is true?
a climate or climate zone with warm, rainy summers and cool, snowy winters.
What is Humid Continental climate zone?
a vegetation zone of mainly short and tall grasses adapted to cool climates.
What are temperate grasslands?
This is a large area that has the same climate but with many many different types of plants that live in the same climate.
What is a vegetation zone?
True of False: The US split over the question of slavery, and it fought a civil war between 1961 and 1965.
What is false?
a climate zone with very cold winters, cold summers, and little rain or snow; a vast, treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line;
What is Tundra?
a vegetation zone that is a treeless plain with grasses, mosses, and scrubs adapted to a cold climate.
What is Tundra?
These maps show the shapes of land or water features on earth as seen from above. They use color to show elevation.
What are physical features?
True of False: The U.S. population is nine times the size of Canada's.
What is true?
A climate or climate zone with cold, snowy winters and cool, rainy summers.
What is the subarctic?
on Alaska's highest peaks and glaciers, no plant life grows at all.
What is Ice Cap?
An area defined by one or more natural or cultural characteristics that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
Where most Canadians live close to.
What is the US border?