Vocabulary
A huge, slow moving mass of snow and ice.
What is a glacier?
The largest mountain system in North America
What are the Rocky Mountains?
It has a great variety of climates.
What is the United States?
The U.S. has a much greater amount of this for farming.
What is fertile soil?
Less than 10% in Canada
What is farmland?
A political division of land in Canada
What is a province?
Major water ways that are part of the border between the U.S. and Canada
What are the Great Lakes?
Being located near one of these gives an area a milder and warmer climate
What is a large body of water (ocean)?
This region in Canada is difficult to live in because of rugged terrain and lack of resources.
What is the Canadian Shield?
Iowa's vegetation region
Grassland or Prairie
Fertile topsoil left by a river
What is alluvial soil?
Missouri and Ohio Rivers
What are tributaries of the Mississippi?
A vegetation zone in the U.S. but not Canada
What is desert scrub?
This is true of fossil fuels and the U.S.
What is the largest producer and consumer?
Distance from the equator
What is a large influence on climate?
A large company that runs huge farms
What is agribusiness?
The St. Lawrence and Mackenzie
What are the two most important rivers in Canada?
The Northernmost vegetation region that contains permafrost
What is Tundra?
Resource in the U.S. mainly used in industry.
What is mining/minerals?
Major landform which contains Death Valley
What is the Great Basin?
A cold, dry region covered with snow for more than half the year
What is tundra?
The largest grasslands in the world
What are the plains/prairies of the U.S. and Canada?
Cover nearly 1/3 of the U.S. and almost 1/2 of Canada
What are forests?
Wood pulp and lumber
What are major uses for forests?
Point where rivers divide to flow east or west
What is the Continental Divide?