U.S. East of the Mississippi River
This river separates the United States into the eastern and western regions.
What is the Mississippi River?
Native Americans west of the Mississippi River were considered to live this type of lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
Canada has this many provinces.
What is 10?
Term used to describe a volcano that is no longer able to erupt.
What is extinct?
Who are the Maya & Aztec?
Name the four subregions east of the Mississippi River.
What are New England, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast?
A dry wind that blows across the region?
What is a chinook?
What is a tundra?
The three main bodies of water that border Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
What are the Gulf of America (Mexico), Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Two environmental challenges that Canada is currently facing.
What is acid rain and melting of the glaciers?
New York, Atlanta, Chicago and New Orleans are examples of this.
What is a metropolitan area?
President Jefferson purchased the vast Louisiana territory from France in what became know as the...
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Term used to describe native peoples living in North America prior to the arrival of Europeans throughout Canada.
What is aboriginal?
Group that defeated the Aztec Empire in less than two years.
Who were the Spanish conquistadors?
What is 130?
This tributary carries more water to the Mississippi River than any other.
What is the Ohio River?
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and settled in large numbers throughout Utah.
What are Mormons?
The first group to reach and settle in what is now Canada in 1000 A.D.
Who were the Vikings?
Mexico and Central America lie along this significant geographical landmark.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The United States government forced the Cherokee nation to leave their land and travel over 1,000 miles in a form of forced migration that would become known as...
What is the Trail of Tears?
The period following the conclusion of the Civil War when large amounts of African Americans moved from the South to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
The idea that the United States had the right to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
Former Cuban political leader who was influenced by the ideals of communism.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Mexico City is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. This percentage of Mexico's population reside in the city.
What is 20%?