US and Canada
Resources of the United States
A Nation of Cities
The Northeast and the South
The Midwest and the West
100

Who became independent first Canada or the United States?

United States

100

The output of goods and services

What is Gross National Product?

100

Location, Location, Location

What are the three factors that make up a  metropolitan area?

100

What crops did they grow in the south on a plantation?

Cotton, tobacco, and rice

100

Why is the Midwest known as the Nation's Bread Basket?

Fertile soil and flat lands. 

200

Name one early explorer explored Canada/ the United States?

The Vikings

 Christopher Columbus

 John Cabot

 Amerigo Vespucci


200
Six weeks and four months

How long would it take to float up and down the Mississippi river in the 1800s?

200

What is a metropolitan area?

Comprising of major cities and its surrounding areas

200

The area between Boston and Washington D.C. 40 million people live in this area

What is a megalopolis?

200

How does gas and oil get from Alaska to other places in the United States 

Pipelines 

300

What is one ecosystem in Canada/ the United States? Bonus if you can name all 3

Warm and swampy (Everglades)

Forest Ecosystem 

Grassland and Highlands (Mountains, Tundras)

300

What are the three sisters?

Corns, beans, and squash

300

Why did people migrate to the cities in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

Jobs

300

Why is the Northeast not good for farming?

Rocky soil

300

What is another industry in the Midwest other than farming? 

Coal mining in Indiana and Illinois

Steel mills in Northwestern Indiana and Ohio

Automotive industry in Michigan (Detroit)

Paper mills in Wisconsin

400

What is a continental divide? 

A boundary that separates rivers flowing towards the opposite side of the country  

400

When was the first smart phone made? 

1994

400

Areas of influence by a metropolitan area and are large

What is a Hinterland?

400

Why did factories and other business move down south?

Newer factories

More efficient factories

Cheaper to produce



400

Worlds largest market for hogs, cattle, eggs and other farm products

What is the Mercantile Exchange?

500

Grapes

What is Canada a leading exporter in?

500

What replaced steamboats?

Railroads

500

What is the Hierarchy of Cities? Bonus if you can name them in order.

Cities rank based on population and other services it provides

Metropolis, Cities, Large Town, Villages, Farms

500

What is one different difference between Cajun and Creole?  

Cajun: From Louisiana but not New Orleans

Creole: From Louisiana but native to New Orleans

Cajun: Heritage from French people who relocated to Louisiana

Creole: Heritage from people born in Spanish and French colonies

Cajun: Food is stewed or smoked. Spicy dishes of rice, seafood and or meat

Creole: Food is French like with multiple influences

500

Promontory Summit, Utah

What city and state did the Transcontinental railroad meet in?

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