North America Geography Part 1
The Great Lakes combine to make the largest body of fresh water in the world. True/False
What is true?
Why did North America’s major cities develop along rivers?
What is rivers were important for transportation and as a water source?
Why did the British bring enslaved Africans to their colonies?
What is to work on big plantations?
Why was Britain able to conquer New France?
What is the British had a stronger army and more money than the French?
What positive effect have volcanoes had on the region?
What is rich soil in mountains?
Planting the same crop year after year is an example of a farming practice that is good for the environment. True/False
What is false?
Growing coffee in shade would be an example of a good farming practice.
What history do Puerto Rica and Cuba share?
What is they were once both Spanish colonies?
What was the trade pattern among the Americas, Europe, and Africa called?
What is triangular trade?
Which Europeans controlled most of Central America in the 1700s?
What created the aquifers in the Yucatán?
What is seeping water formed underground caves and pools?
Who were the leaders of the Mexican Revolution?
Who were Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata?
Whose rights are protected by the Bill of Rights?
Who are American citizens?
Why did the United States finally join World War I?
What is a German submarine sank a ship carrying U.S. passengers?
What effect does Central America’s location on top of moving tectonic plates have on the region?
What are many earthquakes and volcanoes?
What natural disaster destroyed much of Haiti’s capital in 2010?
What is an earthquake?
Who led the 12-year slave rebellion in Haiti?
What did the Columbian Exchange do?
What is brought new foods to different continents?
In the triangular trade, what came from the Americas?
What is raw materials?
Why is it important to save the pools of underground cave water in the Yucatán?
What is they are an important source of fresh water?
What describes the Great Basin?
What was Hernán Cortés’s goal?
What is to explore and conquer the Americas?
What Aztec ruler did the Spanish defeat?
Who is Montezuma?
How do Central Americans make most of their money?
What is growing crops and hosting tourists?
Many of the original natives of the Caribbean died from diseases. Where did they get the diseases?
What is Europeans?
What changes did triangular trade cause?
What is trade and competition among European countries?
Why did European nations take over the region?
What is to gain riches from growing cash crops?
In addition to Cortés’s army, what else defeated the Aztecs?
What is disease?
What is the Great Basin?
What is an area between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
Where are the main oil fields in the United States?
What is the southern Great Plains?
What increased the speed of transportation in the 1800s?
What is canals and railroads?
Why were there more enslaved people in the South than in the North in the 1780s?
What is enslaved people worked the large plantations in the South?
From what are many islands in the Caribbean made?
What is tips of ancient volcanoes?
What landforms did the movement of tectonic plates create in this region?
What is mountains and islands?
Why did it take so long for Caribbean nations to gain independence?
What is other nations wanted to keep control of the region’s resources?
How did the Columbian Exchange affect European life?
What is introduced American foods to Europe?
In what ways is the U.S. Constitution a living document?
What is it can be amended, or changed?
What caused the Dust Bowl?
What is a period of drought and soil erosion?
How did Texas first join the United States?
What is tts territory was annexed to the United States.
Why is Quebec both British and French?
What is the Quebec Act allowed both cultures?
Which Mexican civilization studied the stars, developed a calendar, and had a system of writing?
Who are the Mayan?
Who became leader of Cuba in the 1960s?
Who is Fidel Castro?
What country gained independence first?
What is Haiti?
How are Puerto Rico and Cuba different?
What is Puerto Rico has more economic and political freedom?
What is Puerto Rico today?
What is a United States commonwealth?
Why did British farmers do better than French farmers in North America?
What is the French had poorer soil and a colder climate than their British counterparts?