United States
Physical
Physical
True or False:
The United States has a variety of climates.
What is True?
This is the abbreviation for the name of the capital of the U.S.A.
The abbreviation stands for what?
What is D.C. - District of Columbia?
This mountain chain runs the western part of Canada.
What is the Rockies?
This Canadian province is still French speaking.
What is Quebec.
True or False:
The U.S.A. and Canada both have free market economies.
What is True?
This U.S. state is made from volcanic islands.
What is Hawaii?
This term is used by geologists to name a huge urban area.
What is Megalopolis?
This is the term for the freezing, treeless plains of northern Canada.
What is Tundra?
This group of "first peoples" still resides in Nunavut today.
What are the Inuit?
These were the first people to settle in North America.
What is Indians who descended from Asians who crossed the Bering Strait Land Bridge over 15,000 years ago?
The number of states that make up the contiguous United States of America.
What is 48?
This form of government has existed in the U.S.A. since it gained independence.
What is a Constitutional Republic?
(Representative Democracy in the form of a Federal Republic)
This is the Capital of Canada and the Province it is located in.
What is Ottawa in Ontario.
This form of government has existed in Canada since it gained independence.
What is a Parliamentary Democracy.
This organization allows for free trade between the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA.
This European country settled the eastern coast of North America.
What is Great Brittan.
These are 2 of many reasons the United States has become a global leader.
What is
The invention of Automobiles, Electricity, Telephones, Radio?
2 World Wars?
U.S. companies shipping product globally?
Encouraging democracy and free enterprise around the world?
This geographic feature is the oldest in Canada and has rich deposits of natural resources.
What is the Canadian Shield?
Name the 3 major economic regions of Canada.
Name 3 geographic features shared by the United States and Canada/
What is the Rocky Mts., The Great Plains, The St. Lawrence Rv.
(also the great lakes excluding Michigan)
Name 3 of the 5 major geographic regions of the United States.
What is Coastal Plains, Appalachian Mts., Interior Plains, Mountains and Plateaus, and Pacific Coast.
Name 3 of the 5 major economic regions of the United States.
What is The North East, The South, The Mid-West, The Interior West, The Pacific.
This is the number of Provinces within Canada.
What is 10?
Name the three branches of the Canadian government and their representatives.
What is
Executive: P.M., Privy Council, Cabinet
Legislative: Parliament, The Crown, House of Commons (lower), Senate (upper)
Judicial: Supreme Court of Canada, Appellate courts
The US Canada border is famous for this reason.
What is the longest unprotected boarder?