Physical Geography
A mountain range that stretches more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico to Alaska
What are the Rocky Mountains.
Three words that describe the changes in the focus of the U.S. economy. (Hint: _____ → _____ → ______)
Agriculture → Manufacturing → Technology
This HDI indicator refers to the amount wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.
What is Decent Standard of living?
This organization has a large economic impact because it leads to an increase in trade across the region.
What is NAFTA?
Factors that compel people to leave an area (push them out)
What are push factors?
A significant physical feature in Canada which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
High availability of this natural resource provided the power necessary to drive industrialization in the US.
What is coal?
This HDI indicator refers to how many years can we expect people will live when they are born.
What is Long and Healthy Life?
A military alliance between the US, Canada, and 28 European Countries.
What is NATO?
The number of live births for every 1,000 people in a given population.
What is birth rate?
A region in the northeastern and midwestern United States characterized by its heavy industrial concentration.
What is the manufacturing belt?
California's Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Austin are urban areas that have become leaders in this industry.
What is the high-tech industry?
This HDI indicator refers to how many years we can expect people to be in school.
What is Knowledge?
The country with the 10th largest economy in the world, whose #1 trading partner is the US.
What is Canada?
Number of deaths per every thousand people in a given population.
What is mortality rate?
An area located in the central United States and Canada that is widely used for farming and ranching.
What is the Great Plains.
Due to this factor, 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US-Canada border.
What is climate?
This is used to assess the development of a country without looking at just economic development or growth.
What is Human Development Index?
An international group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States whose members are the world's largest advanced economies and wealthiest democratic-republics.
What is Group of Seven?
The estimated number of children a woman may have in her lifetime in a given population.
What is fertility rate?
A physical feature in Canada that contributes to the economy by providing a source of hydroelectric power
What is Niagra Falls?
A rise in this has resulted in the province of Quebec wanting to separate from Canada.
What is French Nationalism?
An increase in average years of schooling would cause a country's HDI to change in this way.
What is increasing?
Canada is the world's fourth-largest producer of this inexpensive source of renewable energy.
What is natural gas?
Factors that attracts people to migrate to a new area.
What are pull factors?