This country reached 300 million people in population by 2006.
What is the United States?
100
This core of North America has rocks that are as old as 3 billion years old....like you teacher.
What is the Canadian Shield?
100
This strip provided a passage way for migration between Alaska and Siberia.
What is the Asian Land Bridge?
100
With 5 percent of the world population, this country has a third of the world's wealth.
What is the United States?
100
This means that you only focus on concerns within your own country and was a policy of the US until World War I.
What is isolationism?
200
This landmass is 836,000 square miles, but boasts a population of 57,000
What is Greenland?
200
These were possibly the highest mountains at one point and were formed 400 million years ago.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
These people were also known as Inuit and termed "raw meat eaters". They simply called themselves "the people".
What are Eskimos?
200
In 2006, 12 percent of America lived on less than $20,650 for a family of four.
What is the poverty line?
FUN FACT: 1% of the country holds 20% of wealth and this is widening today. Education is the best defense.
200
This War was fought upon the ambition of the United States to conquer the lands held by the British in Canada.
What is the War of 1812?
300
This is an area of high population stringing many cities also known as "Boswash" for the population that extends on the Northeast of America. Other countries have these as well.
What is a"megalopolis"?
300
This area lies just west of the Appalachians and extends from New York to Georgia.
What are the Piedmont Foothills?
300
This northwestern technique of providing for the community by goods such as fish and agriculture made a family grow in rank and status; "keeping up with the Joneses".
What is a Potlatch?
300
The American economy requires this many barrels of oil per year to keep it running! It currently has 21 billion barrels or 1.6% of the world reserves for oil.
What are 7.5 BILLION barrels of oil?
300
This war raged between the United States and Russia for most of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s without a single shot being fired, but ramped up nuclear weapons production.
What is the Cold War?
400
This total land mass size is 3.85 square million miles.
What is Canada?
400
This highest North American Peak is found in this mountain range which consists of The Sierra Nevada, Alaska Range, Cascades and Coast Ranges.
What is Denali or Mount McKinley at 20,320 ft?
400
These civilizations of the Aztec-Tanoan language family and were known for agricultural prowess and pueblo dwelling.
What are the Hopi, Shoshone, Comanche and Papago?
400
This has hampered the production of the Canadian Tar Sands, requiring CO2 emmisions to 6% below levels from 1990.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
400
This action led to US involvement in Afghanistan and other fronts and was fomented by George W. Bush.
What is preemptive engagement?
500
This country will have a population size double what it was in this year.
What is 1967?
500
This state has a tropical rain forest climate.
What is Hawaii?
500
This group consisted of four cultural groups such as the Hopewell, the Adena, the Mississippian and Poverty Point. Many lived near here in Ohio.
What were the Moundbuilder Civilizations?
500
This phenomenon has shifted major American and Canadian industry to other corners of the globe due to cheaper labor costs and taxation.
What is globalization?
500
Some have since accused the United States of unneeded aggression in other ares of the world and has resulted in diminshed trust by other countries.