Landforms
Canada
Regions
Terms
Hodge Podge
100
A very dry area located in the Western part of the U.S.
What is a basin?
100
The capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
100
This region of the United States has many dairy farms
What is the dairy belt?
100
A group of cities that have grown into one large, built-up area
What is a megalopolis?
100
This agreement elimnated many tariffs on products flowing between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
What is NAFTA?
200
The oldest mountain range in the U.S.?
What is the Appalachians?
200
This river allows ships to enter the Great Lakes
What is the St. Lawrence?
200
This region of the United States has a mountain range that extends from Canada to the U.S.
What is the Rocky Mountain region?
200
A country has this when the value of its exports is less than the value of its imports
What is a trade deficit?
200
This is the largest metropolitan area in the Western part of the U.S.
What is Los Angeles?
300
You can take a hike on these mountains from Alabama to Maine
What is the Appalchians?
300
A massive piece of rock that extends for thousands of miles beneath the surface of the earth.
What is the Canadian Shield?
300
This region has many light houses and very cold winters
What is the Northeast?
300
The British government organized Canada into several government districts.
What is a province?
300
This region of the United States has the most wetlands
What is the South?
400
A landform that is flat, has very few trees, and you can see for miles
What is a Plain?
400
The largest bay in the world
What is Hudson Bay?
400
This region has a marine west coast climate and is noted for its salmon and totem poles
What is the Northwest region?
400
In Canada, this is the belief that certain parts of a country should be independent.
What is separatism?
400
This crest divides North America's major river systems into those flowing eastward and those flowing westward.
What is the Continental Divide?
500
This landform is located between the Appalachians and the Coastal Plain of the East Coast
What is the Piedmont?
500
The native Canadians who live in a part of Canada called Nunavut.
What is the Inuit?
500
This region is noted for its wheat and other grains.
What is the Midwest or Great Plains?
500
This refers to the feeling of strong political and emotional loyalty to one's own region
What is regionalism?
500
A place where magma wells up to the surface from the Earth's mantle
What is a hot spot?