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Vocabulary
100
The four major bodies of water that make up part of the United States border.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico?
100
These five large bodies of water together are commonly called the Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
100
Winds that blow from the West.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
100
First inhabitants were these people that moved from place to place.
What are Nomads?
100
Place you would be that marks the separation between rivers flowing Eastward or Westward.
What is the Continental Divide?
200
The flat, coastal plain that runs along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
What are the Eastern Lowlands?
200
The U.S. and Canada have substantial deposits of these three fossil fuels.
What are Coal, Natural Gas, and Oil?
200
Huge swampland in Florida that covers 4,000 square miles.
What are the Everglades?
200
Replaced hunting and gathering.
What is Agriculture?
200
First inhabitants of present day U.S. and Canada migrated from Asia over this land bridge that once connected current day Siberia and Alaska.
What is Beringia?
300
The oldest mountains in North America, it is where you would find the Catskills and Great Smokey Mountains.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
The Mississippi River runs from Minnesota and empties here.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
300
Tornadoes strike so often in the Great Plains, it is often referred to as
What is Tornado Alley?
300
To make severe weather more bearable, Montreal set up a network of shops and restaraunts here.
What is underground?
300
Canadian River that flows across Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean.
What is the Mackenzie River?
400
The Interior Plains, the Great Plains, and the Canadian Shield are all part of the ______________ lowlands.
What is Interior?
400
The Arctic coastlines of Alaska and Canada have this chilling climate.
What is tundra?
400
The Mojave and Sonoran are examples of this type of area.
What is desert?
400
To connect bodies of water, Europeans built a network of these to get around.
What are canals?
400
Rocky flat region that encircles the Hudson Bay.
What is Canadian Shield?
500
These three huge islands are part of Canada.
What are Ellesmere, Victoria, and Baffin?
500
The Rocky Mountains and Pacific ranges have a climate know as....
What is Highlands?
500
Climate type you would find if you were visiting the Odin Dome.
What is Humid Continental?
500
Completed in 1869, this helped expand travel across the U.S.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
The U.S. and Canada's most important deepwater ship route.
What is St. Lawrence Seaway?
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