The lowest, driest, and hottest place in North America (bonus: name the desert in which it is found)
What is Death Valley? (Mojave Desert)
Oldest civilization in North America
What is the Mayan civilization?
Highest peak in North America
What is Mt. McKinley (or Mt. Denali)
The body of water that serves as a major trade route for the northern US and Canada to/from the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence River or St. Lawrence Seaway?
The largest lake in the World
What is Lake Superior?
Body of Water that used to be a land bridge between Asia and North America
What is the Bering Strait?
Countries which colonized the United States (name all three)
What are Great Britain, Spain, and France?
The shorter of the two major mountain ranges in the United States (bonus: name of the taller range as well)
Home of the Saguaro Cacti
What is the Sonoran Desert?
River forming the border between the US and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
The world's second largest bay
What is the Hudson Bay?
Explorer who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico
Who was Hernan Cortez?
Mountain range that runs through Washington and Oregon
What are the Cascades?
Heritage of Quebec
What is French?
The river that flows into the Gulf of California
What is the Colorado River?
The strip of Mexican land that juts out into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Canada received independence from this country in 1867, but still recognizes its monarch as the symbolic head of state.
What is Great Britain?
Mountains that run down nearly the entire length of Mexico
What is the Sierra Madre?
Canadian Province which contains some of the richest oil reserves in the world.
What is Alberta?
The two Great Lakes connected by the Niagara River and Niagara Falls
What are Lake Ontario and Lake Erie?
The ancient capital city of the Aztecs, buried under Mexico City
What is Tenochtitlan?
Person from whom much of the midwestern territory of the United States was purchased to help fund the wars he was waging across Europe.
Who was Napoleon?
The dividing boundary in the US between the rivers that flow west to empty into the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and those that flow east and empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the Hudson Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Continental Divide?
What were the mestizos?
Large area of ancient bedrock dotted with thousands of small lakes forming a horseshoe around the Hudson Bay
What is the Canadian Shield?