Mountains
This mountain range runs through WA an OR.
What is the Cascades?
This trade agreement, which allows North American countries to trade freely across their borders, replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA in 2020.
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)?
The number of provinces and territories in Canada.
What are 10 provinces, and 3 territories?
The lowest (282 feet below sea level), hottest, driest place in North America. Also the only habitat of the Joshua tree.
What is the Mohave Desert?
These are the five Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior (H.O.M.E.S)?
This mountain is the highest peak in N. America.
What is Mt. McKinley (20,320 ft)?
Name the capital of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
What is Washington D.C., U.S; Mexico City, Mexico; Ottowa, Canada?
Most of Canada's population lives within this distance from the U.S. border due to its harsh climate.
What is within 100 miles of the US border?
This desert extends from Arizona to the Baja Peninsula. Also the saguaro cactus is native here.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
This waterfall has the largest volume of any waterfall on earth.
What is Niagara Falls?
This mountain range stretches from Alaska, through Canada, and down the western side of the U.S..
What are the Rocky Mountains?
In 1776, this war began when the thirteen colonies of Great Britain declared independence, resulting in the establishment of the United States of America.
The oldest known civilization in N. America?
What is the Maya (in the Yukatan Peninsula)?
This is the dividing boundary between the rivers that empty into the Pacific (and Gulf of CA) and those that empty into the Atlantic, Hudson Bay and Gulf of America.
What is the Continental Divide?
These oceans border North America...specify which one is on the West and which is on the East coast.
What is Pacific (west coast), and the Atlantic (east coast)?
The Sierra Navada ("Snowy Mountains") run along the edge of this state.
What is CA?
Describe the climate of the U.S.'s southeast, northeast, midwest, and southwest.
What is: subtropical in SE, Continental in the NE, semi-arid in the Mid-west, arid in the SW
Canada was mainly colonized by the _______ and Mexico was mainly colonized by the ______.
What is French (Canada) and Spain (Mexico)?
This river begins south of the Colorado River and forms a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico before it ends in the Gulf of America.
What is the Rio Grande?
This is the world's 2nd largest bay.
What is Hudson Bay?
These are the two largest mountain ranges in N. America.
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains?
These are (at least) two ways Native Americans were affected by the arrival the the Europeans to North America (the new world).
Some people believe this river carved the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
This water feature separates Russia and the U.S..
What is the Bering Strait?
These are two river systems that fostered exploration and trade in the New World.
What are the St. Lawrence Seaway and Mississippi-Missouri River System?
(Will also accept: what is St. Lawrence and Missouri/Mississippi?)