Vocab
United States
Canada
Latin America
South/Middle America
100
a group of islands
What is an archipelago?
100
This is a major crop of the Gulf Coast Plain
What is cotton?
100
Canada is located on this continent
What is North America?
100
These landforms are considered to be the "backbone" of Middle America.
What are Mountains?
100
This mountain range is the longest mountain system in South America
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
treeless plain
What is a tundra?
200
This is one of the most beautiful canyons in the United States.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
True or False.....The Canadian Shield has farmable, fertile soil?
What is False?
200
The largest islands in the Caribbean are the ____________ Antilles.
What is Greater?
200
This is the longest river in South America
What is the Amazon?
300
imaginary line in the Rockies
What is Continental Divide?
300
Megalopolis areas are usually located near which landform?
What is water?
300
Canada is the ________ largest country in the world?
What is 2nd?
300
The Lesser Antilles is a small group of islands also known as an (hint: vocab word)
What is archipelago?
300
Middle America is best known for having many of these landforms
What are volcanoes?
400
tropical grassland
What is Llanos?
400
Grassy hills, flatlands, thick forests and fertile farmland are all located in this area of the U.S.
What is Central Plains?
400
This is one of the busiest shipping ports in Canada
What is Halifax?
400
This island is still being formed by volcanic activity today.
What is Dominica?
400
Middle America is located near four of these, which cause volcanoes and earthquakes
What are tectonic plates?
500
a group of cities that have grown so close together they seem to form one city
What is a megalopolis?
500
This location is NOT in the Central Plains... Great Lakes, Mississippi River, San Francisco, Chicago
What is San Francisco?
500
These mountains run from Eastern Canada to Alabama
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Name the 3 regions of Latin America
What is South America, Middle America, and the Caribbean?
500
Name 1 way in which volcanoes "help" the people of Middle America.
What is piles of ash makes soil fertile
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