North America Basics
This U.S. state contains the highest point on the continent.
What is Alaska? (Denali)
This region includes states like Maine, Vermont, and New Jersey.
What is the Northeast?
Hot, humid summers and mild winters describe this Southern climate zone.
What is Humid Subtropical?
This region includes Mexico and the countries that connect North and South America.
What is Middle/Central America?
This event began in 1519 when the Spanish arrived in Mexico and ended with the defeat of the Aztec Empire.
What is the Spanish Conquest?
This mountain chain forms the major western backbone of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This region contains the “Breadbasket” of the nation.
What is the Midwest?
A city must have this population size to qualify as a metropolitan area.
What is 50,000?
The Caribbean Islands and South America belong to this larger world region
What is Latin America
Mexico gained independence in this year.
What is 1821?
This major U.S. river begins in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
States that were part of the Confederacy belong to this region.
What is the South?
The U.S. population is now above this number.
What is 300 million?
This country-sized mountain chain is the longest in the world.
What are the Andes?
Central America became a group of separate nations during this decade.
What are the 1820s?
This river helped create one of the world’s most famous canyons.
What is the Colorado River?
This region stretches from the Great Plains all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the West?
North America is bordered by these three oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans?
This river in South America carries 10 times the water volume of the Mississippi.
What is the Amazon River?
Goods brought into a country are known as this.
What are imports?
This line in the Rockies determines whether rivers flow toward the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans.
What is the Continental Divide?
The area of frequent tornado activity located in the central U.S. is known as this
What is Tornado Alley?
These early travelers were the first people to settle in North America.
Who were nomads?
This European country is not considered a region of Latin America.
What is Spain?
This term refers to goods that a country sells to other nations.
What are exports?