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100
This is a thick sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.
What is a glacier?
100
This area has rich farmland and some swamps and wetlands.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plains?
100
This zone gets less than 10 inches of precipitation per year.
What is the Desert?
100
This person described the US and Canada as neighbors, friends, partners, and allies.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
This was partly formed from erosion from the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
This is the process where wind, rain, and rivers wear away at soil and stone.
What is erosion?
200
This area is rich in minerals, such as iron, gold, copper, and uranium.
What is the Canadian Shield.
200
This zone has the coldest temperatures.
What is Polar and Tundra?
200
Trade between US, Mexico, and Canada doubled because of this.
What is NAFTA?
200
This water route connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.
What is the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
300
These are trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants.
What is vegetation?
300
This area includes the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade ranges of the United states?
What is the Rocky Mountain and Coastal Ranges?
300
This zone averages between 10 - 80 inches of precipitation per year.
What is Forest?
300
This natural resource is found in Texas, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
What is oil?
300
These are the three longest rivers in the United States and Canada.
What are the Missouri, Mackenzie, and Mississippi Rivers?
400
This is the way that business owners use resources to provide the goods and services that people want.
What is economy?
400
This area is home to many cattle ranchers.
What is the Great Plains?
400
People grow grain and raise cattle in this zone.
What is Grasslands?
400
This is said to be both a food supply and an industry for some.
What is fish?
400
This Danish dependency is also included in North America.
What is Greenland?
500
This is the Shoshone woman who helped to guide Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
500
This area has a 400 million year old mountain range.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
500
The temperature is moderate in this zone. Rarely falling below 32 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter.
What is the Rain Forest?
500
This is the year that NAFTA was signed.
What is 1992?
500
These two unique animals developed in North America.
What are the bald eagle and the American alligator?