United States- Physical Geography
This flat, sandy region extends up through the Mississippi River Valley into the Midwest and along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts
What is the Coastal Plains?
This largest region of Canada is a solid mass of hard rock that makes up nearly half of Canada's land surface. It includes the mainland, or Labrador, part of New-foundland, most of Quebec, Ontario, Nunavut, and more.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This 25,000-mile path of intense volcanic and seismic activity encircles the Pacific Ocean and includes Mexico and Central America.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Completed in 1914, this vital waterway saves ships thousands of miles when transporting goods between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This massive mountain range forms part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and was created when tectonic plates collided.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This is a negative heritage of the region
What is violence?
This geological boundary line forces waters on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains to empty into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Eastern Continental Divide?
This is the point beyond which trees cannot grow at all.
What is the timberline?
This physical feature acts as a narrow land bridge connecting the continents of North America and South America.
What is an isthmus (or Central America)?
Because it sits in a broad valley surrounded by mountains at 7,200 feet, this massive capital city traps air pollution as a daily health hazard.
What is Mexico City?
This hyper-arid region gets less than 1 mm of rain a year, making it the driest desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
In Ecuador, this includes a five-day water balloon fight
What is the Carnival?
Winds lose moisture flowing over Pacific coastal mountains, leaving this low, dry basin area of Nevada and Utah in a rain shadow.
What is the Great Basin?
These mountains stretch from Alaska to the southern tip of South America
What are the Western Cordillera?
This vast Mexican landform is a dry, elevated region bordered by the twin Sierra Madre mountain ranges.
What is the Mesa Central (or Mexican Plateau)?
The removal of trees and related biodiversity.
What is deforestation?
This is the largest river basin in the world, covering 40 percent of South America.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
The most critical environmental issue facing South America today.
What is Preserving the Amazon rainforest?
Flowing 2,340 miles from its Montana headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, this is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
Spreading past Canada's Atlantic coast, this major ocean current carries Arctic water and icebergs down from the northern seas.
What is the Labrador Current?
This specific coastal subregion of Mexico features dense rainforests with high biodiversity and heavy annual rainfall.
What are the Southern Tropics?
The washing of soil from construction and farming sites to the ocean
What is sedimentation?
This northern river basin contains broad, grassy plains called Llanos and includes parts of Venezuela and Colombia.
What is the Orinoco River Basin?
The continent's nations are split between two major trade organizations: one pursuing state economic control and another focusing on this market type.
What is a free market?
This mountain range is located west of the Piedmont and extends from eastern Canada southward into northern Alabama. These mountains form the Eastern Continental Divide
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Though it is one of the smallest regions, over 50 percent of Canadians live here
The Great Lakes- Saint Lawrence Lowlands
Unlike volcanic islands, the islands making up this specific Caribbean cluster are low, flat, and formed entirely from coral.
What are The Bahamas?
Mexico's climates are influenced by their proximity to the sea, latitude, local topography, and this
What is elevation (altitude)?
This region is parellel to the east coast and covers half of a country.
What are the Brazilian Highlands?
The most stable nation in South America, this nation is frequently cited as a major economic success story on the continent, contrasting with Venezuela's economic failure.
What is Chile?