USA
Highest point in North America.
Mount Denali (Mt. Mckinley)
Capital of Canada
Ottawa
A city with more than 10 million inhabitants. Mexico City is one.
megacity
Central America is what kind of geographic formation.
Isthmus
The movement of people into one country from another.
Immigration
Lowest point in North America.
Death Valley
A political unit/area that is similar to a state.
Province
The ethnic group that came from the blending of Native American and European descent. Today this group makes up 70% of the population in Mexico.
Mestizo
A large group of islands.
Archipelago
The total control of an industry by one person or company.
Monopoly
Boundary in the Eastern United States where the piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Fall Line
Canada's most important river which is the drinking source for three of its largest cities and leads to the Atlantic Ocean.
St.Lawrence River
The migration of people from the rural countryside to the urban cities.
Urbanization
The deliberate destruction of forests for human activities such as farming, logging, and mining.
Deforestation
deciduous vs coniferous trees
Deciduous-flat fall off
Coniferous-needle like year round
North America’s oldest mountains. They extend about 1500 miles from Quebec to central Alabama.
The Appalachian Mountains.
The percentage of Canada's population that lives near the US border?
90%
The desert people that moved south and established the city of Tenochtitlan.
Aztecs
Most slaves during the Atlantic Slave trade were sent to this region.
The Caribbean
NAFTA stands for
North American Free Trade Agreement.
List the 5 Great Lakes
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior
Remember HOMES
The Province in Canada with a largely French bilingual population that has had separatist sentiments.
Quebec
The percentage of crimes are solved in Mexico.
5.2%
An island in the Caribbean that is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This is the island that Christopher Columbus landed on in 1492.
Hispaniola
Example of a Primary, Secondary, tertiary economic sector job
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