NA General
This large set of mountain ranges contains the Rockies and Sierra Nevada, among others
What is the Western Cordillera?
This idea refers of the blending of cultures in a country of immigrants, like the U.S.
What is a melting pot?
These foundational freedoms make up the first part of the “make-up” of the nation.
What is the bill of rights?
The Yellowstone super volcano sits under this type of massive crater.
What is a caldera?
“If I think, then I am. I do think, therefore I am.” is an example of this.
What is deductive reasoning?
The divergence of water flow in the western U.S. is caused by this.
What is the continental divide?
Fear of other cultures. It led to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is xenophobia?
The branch of government responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the executive branch?
These waves don’t traverse liquid, which helps us infer the state of the core.
What are S-waves?
The five themes of geography, in alphabetical order. (5 seconds to answer in full).
What are HEI, location, movement, place, region?
Wild “forests” of corn, wheat, and cows dominate this region of the U.S., near the great lakes.
What is the Midwest?
The most prevalent religion in the U.S.
What is Christianity?
The war for territory between the French and English.
What is the French and Indian War?
In convergence, you’re least likely to find subduction at this type of boundary.
What is continental-continental?
Another term for lithosphere.
What is a tectonic plate?
Due to the rain shadow effect, giant inland sea west of the Rockies, has now dried up. Its remains can be found in the Utah.
What is the Great Basin?
The Great Famine pushed people out of this country and toward the U.S. in the mid 1800s.
What is Ireland?
The first big expansion of U.S. territory. Doubled its size.
What is the French and Indian War?
Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner core, and the outer core make up this model.
What is the mechanical structure (of the earth)?
Due to pressure and heat these rocks change from, unlike their sedimentary counterparts.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Two of the three abundant fossil fuels in the U.S.
What is the Great Basin?
These two regions overlap each other in the south, one is marked by snowbird migration, the other by large African-American populations?
What are the Black Belt and the Sunbelt?
Two of three main U.S. places with large Native American settlements, long before European colonization.
What are the Cahokia, Mesa Verde, and Taos Pueblo? (need two)
This lava is not viscous and flows far to create shield volcanoes.
What is mafic lava?
The name of the act (including the year), which banned Chinese immigrants from moving to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?