Landforms
This landform is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
This landmark in New Mexico is where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
What is the Trinity Site.
This large valley in Arizona was created by erosion from the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
A strong economy has fewer of these than it has exports.
What are imports?
This is the count of how many people live in a certain area or nation.
This landform is created by the erosive force of flowing water or moving ice.
What is a valley?
This landmark in St. Louis symbolizes the opening up of the West.
What is the Gateway Arch?
This large mountain chain stretches from Mexico to northern Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
These are natural products found in an area that have value, and that can be bought and sold.
What are natural resources?
Push factors can contribute to a high rate of this.
What is migration?
This landform is an area of land that is higher in elevation than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
This landmark in Florida controls the launch of a type of vehicle; once the launch is over, "Houston" takes over.
What is the Kennedy Space Center?
This area in California contains the lowest point in North America.
What is Death Valley?
This is the value of all goods and services produced in a nation with a specific period of time.
What is the gross domestic product, or GDP?
A graphic showing people grouped by age and gender is called this.
What is a population pyramid?
This landform consists of a group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
This Canadian landmark symbolizes the economic importance of the Canadian National Railroad.
What is the CN Tower?
This mountain in Alaska is the tallest in North America.
What is Denali?
This economic indicator measures how many people are out of work during a certain time period.
What is the unemployment rate?
A positive net rate of this means that strong pull factors are encouraging people to move to a new place.
What is migration rate?
This landform is marked by low levels of precipitation over a period of time.
What is a desert?
This archaeological landmark in Illinois preserves the remains of a large wooden village that may have had 10,000 inhabitants.
What is Cahokia Mounds?
This large and fairly flat area in the middle of the North American continent provided a home where great herds of buffalo used to roam.
What are the Great Plains?
Nations make money when products leave the country in this form.
What are exports?
This statistic gives a lot of information about health care systems by measuring the death rate of young children.
What is the infant mortality rate?