Mountains
These mountains cover parts of the western United States and Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The name for a flat area.
What is a Plain?
The name for the geographic phenomenon that leaves one side of a mountain wet and the other dry.
What is the Rainshadow Effect?
The largest city in Canada.
What is Toronto?
What are the Sierra Nevada?
The name for a flat area at a high elevation.
What is a plateau?
What is irrigation?
The longest river system in the US.
What is the Mississippi?
This geographic area of the United states occupies the middle area between the major mountain ranges in the western United States. It is known for being dry and sandy.
What is the Great Basin?
What two things make the Great Plains good for farming.
What is good soil and enough moisture?
A manmade wall put in front of a river to collect water behind it. These can also provide electricity.
What is a dam?
Name one province in Canada.
Answers vary.
The name for the mountains in eastern and western Mexico?
What are the Sierra Madre?
This is the reason for the wet-temperature rainforests in Oregon and Washington.
Prevailing winds and the rainshadow effect
The name for the direction the wind comes from most of the time in a certain area.
What are Prevailing Winds?
This major seaway links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
The name for the highest mountain in North America.
What is Denali?
Name the five Great Lakes.
What are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario?
The name for the type of farming or agriculture where people only grow enough for themselves and their family. It was a type of agriculture talked about when discussing Mexico.
What is subsistence farming?
Name the two major peninsulas in Mexico.
What are the Baja and Yucatan?