Land Forms
United States
Vegetation Zones
Key terms
Canadian History
100
Extend for about 3,000 miles along the western section of North America
Rocky Mountains
100
Two of the three mountain systems in the U.S
What are Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, Cascades.
100
A cold, dry region covered with snow for more than half the year
What is tundra?
100
Belonging to a certain place
What is Indigenous
100
Two important Canadian rivers
Mackenzie and St.Lawrence
200
Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
What is the Great Lakes
200
One of North America's most important transportation and trade routes.
Why is the St.Lawrence river so important?
200
Has little rainfall and few plants exist in these regions.
What is a Desert Scrub?
200
A person who tries to convert others to there religion
What is Missionaries
200
Canadian Shield
Located east of the Interior Plains.
300
A political division of Canada
What is a Province?
300
1775
When did the Revolutionary War brake out?
300
Also called a prairie world's largest largest prairie lies in Central and Great Plains.
What is grassland
300
A person who must work for a period of years to gain his or her freedom.
What is Indentured Servants
300
Gave French people in Quebec the right to speak French.
Quebec Act
400
A region of flat or rolling land covered with grasses
What is a prarie
400
In 1862 gave free land to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Range from mild to polar climate.
What are climates of Canada?
400
People who believed that slavery was wrong and wanted to end it's practice.
What is abolitionist
400
Having two official languages
What is bilingual
500
Permanently frozen layer of ground below the top layer of soil.
What is permafrost?
500
In 1929 people lost jobs, farmers lost farms, banks closed, and people lost their life savings.
What is the Great Depression?
500
Vary greatly includes deserts, tropical, and extremely cold climates.
What are climates of U.S?
500
Refers to the horrible mass murder of millions of people in brutal prison camps during World War 2
What is the Holocaust
500
Borders Canada on the north
What is the Arctic Ocean