Landforms
Movement of People
Similarities between the US and Canada
Canada
Vocabulary
100
The 3 major bodies of water that surround the United States.
What are the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, & Pacific Ocean?
100
A person who permanently moves to a new place.
What is an immigrant.
100
This is the language that the US and Canada share in common.
What is English?
100
This language is the second most common spoken language in Canada
What is French.
100

People who move from place to place

Who are Nomads?

200
Major mountain range in the western part of the United States?
What is Rocky Mountains?
200
A reason that might draw someone to a place?
What is a pull factor.
200
This is the term for the percentage of the population able to read and write.
What is the Literacy Rate?
200
This landform, unique to Canada, is very poor farming land.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200

Land Bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska

What is Beringia?

300
Large, flat region in the middle of the US & Canada.
What are Great Plains?
300
This figure in New York City welcomed immigrants into the United States.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
300
This long line has been cleared of trees, but is otherwise unfortified.
What is the U.S. and Canadian border?
300
This city is the capital of the province of Quebec.
What is Quebec City.
300

Separates the flow of water in the United States between westward and eastward flowing rivers.

What is the Continental Divide?

400
Mountain range in the eastern United States.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
A reason the someone might want to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
400
True or False: The St. Lawrence River is located in the Northwest United States?
What is False. The St. Lawrence River is located in Canada.
400
These are two reasons that Canada struggles with it's national identity.
What is: regionalism, sectionalism, language differences, historical differences, or other acceptable answers.
400

Important ship route.

What is St. Lawrence Seaway?

500
The names of the Great Lakes.
What is Erie, Huron, Ontario, Huron, & Superior?
500
Give an example of a religious push factor.
What is religious persecution (or other acceptable answers)
500
These are the goods that the U.S. and Canada both export.
What are technology, information systems, and foodstuffs.
500

sections of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised and lowered

What is Locks?

500

A large chain of cities that is so large that the cities connect.

What is a megalopolis?

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