Mountains
These mountains cover parts of the western United States and Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This major river flows south through the central United States toward the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Northern Canada and Greenland generally experience this type of very cold climate.
What is a polar climate?
North America is located mainly in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
Which mountain range is farther west: the Appalachians or the Rockies?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
These mountains are located in the eastern United States and are older than the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These five large freshwater lakes are located along the U.S.–Canada border.
What are the Great Lakes?
Why does North America have many different climate regions?
Because of its large size, latitude, elevation, mountains, and distance from oceans.
The longest river system in the US.
What is the Mississippi?
A farmer wants large areas of relatively flat land for growing crops and raising cattle. Which North American physical region would be a good choice?
What are the Great Plains?
How do mountains help create desert conditions in parts of North America?
They block rainfall and move hot, dry wind into the regions.
What two things make the Great Plains good for farming?
What is good soil and enough moisture?
Ground that remains frozen for most or all of the year is called __________________________.
What is permafrost?
This ocean borders North America to the east.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Why might people living in northern Canada need different clothing and housing than people living in southern Mexico?
Because the regions have very different climates and temperatures.
Why is the Great Plains region important to both agriculture and energy production?
It contains fertile soil as well as deposits of oil and natural gas.
Name the five Great Lakes.
What are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario?
Parts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico have a __________________________ climate.
What is a desert climate?
This ocean borders North America to the west.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
How can the Rocky Mountains influence climate in North America?
They can block air masses, affect precipitation, and create rain-shadow conditions.
The name for the highest mountain in North America.
What is Denali?
Explain one way major rivers helped people settle and develop North America.
Rivers provided water, transportation, fertile land, food, and opportunities for trade.
__________________________ is the average weather pattern of a place over a long period of time
What is a climate?
What is the hottest desert region in the United States?
What is the Mojave Desert which includes Death Valley?
North America has polar regions, deserts, grasslands, forests, and warm subtropical areas. Give three geographic factors that help explain why the continent has such different climates.
Any three: latitude, elevation, mountain ranges, distance from oceans, ocean currents, or prevailing winds