U9 L7 North America Flashcards
What hemisphere is North America in?
Northern (duh haha)
Which oceans is North America surrounded by?
- Pacific
- Arctic
- Atlantic
What rank is North America as the largest continent?
third
What is a cordillera? Where is it located in North America?
- chain of mountains
- West
What is the best known range in NA Cordillera?
Rocky Mountains
What mountains are along the east NA?
- Laurentian
- Appalachian
What is the most extensive River in NA?
Mississippi
What are Mississippi’s tributaries?
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Red
- Arkansas
- Illinois
MORAI
What is the largest lake of the Great Lakes?
Lake Superior
What are the five lakes of the Great Lakes?
- Superior
- Michigan
- Huron
- Erie
- Ontario
SHEMO
What River does the Great Lakes feed, and empties to?
- St Lawrence River
- Atlantic ocean
What are the nations of NA?
- Greenland
- Canada
- US
- Mexico
What is the world’s largest island?
Greenland
What is Greenland’s climate?
sub-arctic to arctic
Are there few people who live in Greenland?
yes
What are the languages spoken in Greenland?
- Greenlandic
- Danish
- English
Greenland is a self-governing division of which country?
Denmark
Who is the chief of state of Greenland?
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
What is the official name of Greenland?
Kalaallit Nunaat
What is Greenland’s economy highly dependent on?
- fishing (shrimp)
- some mining and tourism
What is the second largest country in the world after Russia?
Canada
What ancestry is most of Canada’s population?
European ancestry
What are the two official languages of Canada?
French and English
In Canada’s early days, it was home to French people in what occupation?
fur traders
What kind of Democracy is Canada?
Parliamentary Democracy
Who is the head of state of Canada?
Queen Elizabeth II
Canada’s legislative body is what kind of Parliament? What does it consist of?
- bicameral
- senate and house of commons
Canada’s legal system is based on (), except in Quebec which is based on ()
- English law
- French law
A vote in 1996 decided in favor of keeping () part of Canada
Quebec
Was Canada an ally of the US in the Cold War?
yes
Canada was a charter member of what?
NATO
For how many years has Canada’s friendly relationship with the US lasted?
200 years
Canada converted from a rural economy to what?
urban industry
What is NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Agreement
- reduced tariffs
- continental free trade zone
Who signed NAFTA?
- Canada
- US
- Mexico
What is FTA?
US-Canada Free Trade Agreement
A majority of US’ population has its roots where?
Europe
What are the languages spoken in the US?
- English
- Spanish
US is what kind of republic?
federal republic
US is made of () independent states and () district
50, 1
What was the only superpower in the post-Cold War era?
US
What contributed to budget deficits in the Cold War?
Govt spending
Wars in which countries increased US spending?
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
What is an extension of the Rocky mountains in the US?
Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains
What is the climate in Mexico? What natural hazards are there?
- tropical to desert
- volcanoes
- earthquakes
- hurricanes
A majority of people in Mexico are what?
mestizos
Who are mestizos?
mixed Spanish and Amerindian descent
What is the main language and dialects spoken in Mexico?
- Spanish
- native Amerindian dialects
Mexico was a () nation during the Cold War
non-aligned
What problems have developed with US and Mexico?
- drug smuggling
- illegal immigration of Mexicans
Mexico is what kind of republic?
federal
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was confronted with accusations of what?
- corruption
- rigged elections
Who is Vicente Fox?
- National Action Party candidate
- former Coca Cola executive
- 2000 won
Who is Felipe Calderon?
- National Action Party candidate
- 2006 won
Who is Enrique Pena Nieto?
- PRI politician
- won 2012
