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100
The largest mountain chain in North America - it is located in the western half of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
a huge, slow moving mass of ice and snow
What is a glacier?
100
a major mountain system that is found in both the United States and Canada
What are the Rocky Mountains?
100
areas near the ocean tend to have this kind of climate
What is mild?
100
until the 1900's, most farms in the United States were owned by these
What are families?
200
These are the world's largest group of freshwater lakes.
What are the Great Lakes?
200
a cold dry region covered with snow for more than half the year
What is a tundra?
200
this region is between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains
What is a huge plains area or the Great Plains?
200
because Canada is a long way from the equator, the climate tends to be
What is cold?
200
rivers in the Quebec Province are used to make this type of electicity
What is hydroelectricity?
300
This is a bowl shaped region that is home to Death Valley and the Great Salt Lake.
What is the Great Basin?
300
smaller river or streams that flow into a larger river
What is a tributary?
300
another name for the Great Plains, or a region of flat or rolling land covered with grasses
What is a prairie?
300
the area between the 23 1/2 N and 23 1/2 S lines of latitude
What are the tropics?
300
much of Canada's mineral wealth is found in this region
What is the Canadian Shield?
400
This region is located in Canada by the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River and is home to more than half of Canada's population.
What is St. Lawrence Lowlands?
400
the fertile topsoil left by a river after a flood
What is alluvial soil?
400
the Ohio River and Missouri River are tributaries of this major river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
400
factors that influence climate zones in the United States and Canada include latitude, mountains, size of region and _____
What is the ocean?
400
the major natural resources of the United States are soil, water, timber, farmland, and this group of deposits that must be mined
What are minerals?
500
This rocky, rugged area surrounds the Hudson Bay and covers half of Canada.
What is the Canadian Shield?
500
political divisions in Canada
What are provinces?
500
Canada's longest river
What is the Mackenzie River?
500
the area on the dry sheltered side of a mountain that receives little rainfall
What is a rainshadow?
500
These 2 regions in Canada are major agricultural regions?
What are the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Interior Plains or Prairie Provinces?