Section 1
What is the main mountain range in the East that rises above the Piedmont?
Appalachian Mountains
In the West several of the countries biggest mountain ranges make up what?
Rocky Mountains
What is the name for a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land?
Colony
Which document spells out the powers and functions of the branches of the federal government in the U.S.?
U.S. Constitution
The economy in this region is heavily depended on banks, Investment firms and insurance companies.The area's respected universities are Harvard and Yale.
The Northeast
What is one of the busiest shipping ports on the Great Lakes?
Chicago
What lakes make up the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world and are also an important waterway for trade between the United States and Canada?
Great Lakes
What is the term for an area of high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards the opposite ends of a continent?
Continental Divide
New cities in the colonies such as Boston and New York became major ______.
Seaports
For thousands of years, were the only people living in the Americas. Today these people live in the western United States.
Native Americans
What is the term for a string of large cities that have grown together?
Megalopolis
What is the largest region in the United States?
The West
What is west of the Great Lakes and is North America's largest and most important river?
Mississippi River
What is the name of the active volcano that had a tremendous volcanic eruption in 1980 that blew off the mountains peak and destroyed 150 miles of forest?
Mount Saint Helens
What is the term for a large farm that grows mainly one crop?
Plantations
What is the term we use for people who speak two languages?
Bilingual
This is a region that includes long coastlines along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Along the coastal plains rich soils provide farmers with abundant crops of cotton,tobacco, and citrus fruit.
The South
Which agreement made trade easier and cheaper for the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
What is the term for a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river?
Tributary
What is the name of North America's highest mountain?
Mount McKinley
What was the name of the first settlers that traveled west?
Pioneers
Food and music from around the world have influenced what?
American Culture
This region is one of the most productive farming regions in the world. The Mississippi River and many of it's tributaries carry materials that help create the regions rich soils, which are good for farming. Farmers grow mostly corn, wheat, and soybeans. The farmers also raise livestock such as dairy cows.
The Midwest
What is the term for the threat or use of violence against civilians to intimidate or cause fear for political or social reasons?
Terrorism
What do rivers deposit that creates fertile farmlands that cover most of the Interior Plains?
Silt
Which nonrenewable resource supplies the energy for more than half of the energy produced in the United States?
Coal
What is the name of the international organization that the United States is in and it's headquarters is located in New York City.
United Nations (UN)
Movies, television programs, and sports is popular elsewhere, but in America we call this what?
American Popular Culture
What is the country's leading automobile producer?
Detroit
Who urged the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as soon as possible and was the nation's first African American president?
Barack Obama