Unit 5 Test Flashcards
Which landform division of North America has glaciers, rolling hills, and limited agriculture?
Canadian Shield
Which landform division of North America has oil, a bay, and permafrost?
Arctic Coastal Plains
Which landform division of North America has lowlands/swamps/marshes, is sandy, and has sea ports?
Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plains
Which landform division of North America is hilly, has somewhat better soils, and contains the Fall Line?
Piedmont
Which landform division of North America has low mountains, is heavily populated, and has coal/water/power/wood
Appalachian Highlands
Which landform division of North America has the Ozarks, minor coal deposits, and is like Appalachia?
Interior Highlands
Which landform division of North America has prairies/grasslands and drainage basins?
Interior Plains
Which landform division of North America has rugged ranges, the Continental Divide, and provides ranching/mining/recreation?
Rocky Mountains
Which landform division of North America has high plateaus/canyons, mining, and irrigation?
Intermountain Basins and Plateaus
Which landform division of North America has high mountains, irrigated agriculture, forests/fisheries/oil/gas?
Pacific Mountains and Valleys
Where do the majority of earthquakes take place in the US?
West coast, because there is a fault line there
Where do most tsunamis take place in the US?
Coasts, because tsunamis are large waves of water and they take space to grow
Where do most hurricanes or tropical storms take place in the US?
Southern Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Pacific; because it is very windy there and there is water
Where do most tornadoes take place in the US?
Along the center, because it is dusty there and it is Hurrricane Alley
Where do most floods take place in the US?
West Coast, near Michigan, Florida, Northern East Coast; because they are all near large bodies of water
Where do most blizzards take place in the US?
Mostly the north, because it is cold and sometimes wet there
From which part of the Pacific Ocean does the California Current originate?
West Wind Drift and Subarctic Current, these make the West Coast cooler
Which direction will weather systems generally move across the US?
West
How do the prevailing Westerlies nullify the effects of the Atlantic Ocean on the East coast
It brings in all of the crazy weather that the ocean would stop
How does continentality affect the climate of the interior US?
Keeps it relatively stable
How does latitude affect climate?
North-cooler
South-warmer
How do the Rocky Mountains affect the climate just to the east?
Wet- lots of melted and evaporated snow
How did the citizens of Montreal adapt to their harsh enviroment?
They built underground buildings
What bodies of water does the St. Lawrence Seaway connect?
Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River
