Definitions
A boundary in the eastern United States where the higher Piedmont drops off to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain.
What is the Fall Line?
An American colonist who remained loyal to the British Government.
What is a Loyalist?
Which mountain range does the Continental Divide fall on?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What are the TWO most abundant resources for the United States?
Coal and Natural Gas
Give one negative way humans have affected the environment.
(Deforestation, pollution, overfishing, etc.)
The removal of all trees in a stand of timber.
What is Clear-cutting?
Harvesting fish to the point that species are depleted and the value of the fishery reduced.
What is Overfishing?
What are the two most spoken languages in Canada?
What are English and French?
What are the THREE most abundant resources in Canada?
Coal, Natural Gas, Iron Ore
Why is overfishing harmful?
(It depletes fish populations and harms the ecosystem.)
Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acid, which kills wildlife and damages buildings, forests, and crops.
What is Acid Rain?
An economy that emphasizes services and technology rather than industry and manufacturing.
What is a Post-Industrial Economy?
As you travel north in Canada, what happens to the climate?
It becomes colder with longer winters and shorter growing seasons.
List FOUR different types of renewable energy.
Solar, Wind, Hydroelectric, Biomass
How does acid rain affect the environment?
(Damages forests, kills wildlife, harms buildings and crops.)
A partially self-governing country with close ties to another country; a largely self-governing country within the British Empire.
What is a Dominion?
A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern portions of the United States.
What is the Sunbelt?
This caused billions of dollars in crop and livestock loss.
What is Drought?
Explain why natural resources are important to a country’s economy.
(They create jobs, power industry, generate exports, support economic growth.)
What is the capital of California?
Sacramento
A member of the Arctic native peoples of North America; once known as Eskimo.
Who are the Inuit?
The breaking away of one part of a country to create a separate, independent country.
What is Separatism?
Describe in three sentences or less what happens to Canada’s climate as you travel north.
(Colder temperatures, tundra/subarctic conditions, shorter growing season.)
What is biggest state in the United States?
Alaska
What is the capital of Canada
Ottawa