What are the Great Plains, the Coastal Plains, and the Canadian Shield?
100
The three oceans that surround North America are
What are the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This map is usually colored by country or state and shows man-made boundaries
What is a political map?
100
Roughly the number of square miles the US and Canada cover together
What is 7 million?
100
This country has the world's largest railway system
What is the United States of America?
200
The oldest mountain range in North America
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
The largest river in North America
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This map has colors that make natural patterns stand out and shows land-forms
What is a physical map?
200
They type of climate that we live in
What is humid subtropic/temperate climate?
200
Name the land bridge that the first inhabitants of North America used to cross from Asia
What is Beringia?
300
Name the two island chains in the United States
What are the Aleutian islands and the Hawaiian islands?
300
List the 5 Great Lakes
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
300
This map shows the general weather of a particular area season after season, year after year
What is a climate map?
300
Name given to area of the Great Plains where a particular extreme weather pattern can be witnessed
What is Tornado Alley?
300
Agriculture replaced this, which led early settlements to become permanent
What is hunting and gathering?
400
This is the highest ridge of the Rocky Mountains and separates water either flowing west to the Pacific Ocean or east to the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Continental Divide?
400
Explain the importance of the St. Lawrence Seaway
What is it connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River?
400
This map shows where people live and how many people live in each area
What is a population density map?
400
The fraction of the United States that is roughly covered by woodlands
What is 1/3?
400
List three issues that Los Angeles faces as a result of its massive population growth
What are air pollution, inadequate water supply, construction along a fault-line?
500
The highest peak in North America is called
What is Mt. McKinley?
500
List the three gulfs found around North America
What are the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
500
This type of map uses contour lines to represent changes in elevation
What is a contour map?
500
List the mineral resources we discussed that are found in the US and Canada
What are gold, silver, nickel, iron, copper, uranium, and zinc?
500
Explain what NAFTA stands for and what it does
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement and to allow free movement of goods and services among the countries?