Randomized
What is the governing "law of the land" in the United States?
The Constitution
This form of government gives power to the people
democracy
The point of origin for a river
headwaters
Who was responsible for the expansion of America's parks?
Teddy Roosevelt
What formation serves as the Eastern Continental Divide?
Appalachian Mountains
Industrial region in the Northwest and Great Lakes region
Manufacturing Belt
This form of government derives its power from a constitution
Stress on water supplies due to insufficient rainfall
Drought
This formation creates the Western Continental Divide
Rocky Mountains
The Atlantic and Gulf coasts are susceptible to what natural disaster?
hurricanes
Joseph Smith founded what religion?
Mormonism (LDS)
This is America's form of government
federal republic
The point in the eastern or western United States that determines which direction local rivers will flow
Continental Divide
Industrial region in the South and Southwest
Sun Belt
What term refers to an underground layer of water-bearing rock or sediment from which groundwater can be extracted?
Aquifer
Another name for orthodox protestants
Evangelical
What are the three branches of American government?
legislative, executive, and judicial
The desert region between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast.
Great Basin
The first national park was established under this presidency
Ulysses Grant
What develops when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide combine with water vapor that then falls to the earth as rain?
Acid Rain
What modern religious philosophy is embraced by many teenagers and young adults in America?
Moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD)
What are the four core values of Americans?
freedom, equality, individualism, and growth
Forms the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
Piedmont
This current flows across the northwest coast of North America, bringing plentiful rains.
Japanese Current
What occurs when additional nutrients flow into a lake or stream and lead to an increase of algae and bacteria?
eutrophication