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Which landform division of North America has glaciers, rolling hills, and limited agriculture?

A

Canadian Shield

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Which landform division of North America has oil, a bay, and permafrost?

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Arctic Coastal Plains

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Which landform division of North America has lowlands/swamps/marshes, is sandy, and has sea ports?

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Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plains

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Which landform division of North America is hilly, has somewhat better soils, and contains the Fall Line?

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Piedmont

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Which landform division of North America has low mountains, is heavily populated, and has coal/water/power/wood

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Appalachian Highlands

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Which landform division of North America has the Ozarks, minor coal deposits, and is like Appalachia?

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Interior Highlands

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Which landform division of North America has prairies/grasslands and drainage basins?

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Interior Plains

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Which landform division of North America has rugged ranges, the Continental Divide, and provides ranching/mining/recreation?

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Rocky Mountains

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Which landform division of North America has high plateaus/canyons, mining, and irrigation?

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Intermountain Basins and Plateaus

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Which landform division of North America has high mountains, irrigated agriculture, forests/fisheries/oil/gas?

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Pacific Mountains and Valleys

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Where do the majority of earthquakes take place in the US?

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West coast, because there is a fault line there

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Where do most tsunamis take place in the US?

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Coasts, because tsunamis are large waves of water and they take space to grow

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Where do most hurricanes or tropical storms take place in the US?

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Southern Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Pacific; because it is very windy there and there is water

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Where do most tornadoes take place in the US?

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Along the center, because it is dusty there and it is Hurrricane Alley

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Where do most floods take place in the US?

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West Coast, near Michigan, Florida, Northern East Coast; because they are all near large bodies of water

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Where do most blizzards take place in the US?

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Mostly the north, because it is cold and sometimes wet there

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From which part of the Pacific Ocean does the California Current originate?

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West Wind Drift and Subarctic Current, these make the West Coast cooler

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Which direction will weather systems generally move across the US?

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West

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How do the prevailing Westerlies nullify the effects of the Atlantic Ocean on the East coast

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It brings in all of the crazy weather that the ocean would stop

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How does continentality affect the climate of the interior US?

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Keeps it relatively stable

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How does latitude affect climate?

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North-cooler

South-warmer

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How do the Rocky Mountains affect the climate just to the east?

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Wet- lots of melted and evaporated snow

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How did the citizens of Montreal adapt to their harsh enviroment?

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They built underground buildings

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What bodies of water does the St. Lawrence Seaway connect?

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Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River

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What bodies of water did the Erie Canal connect?

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Lake Erie and Atlantic Ocean

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What is a lock?

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A section of waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered

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What is the importance of the St. Lawrence Seaway?

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Let huge, oceangoing vessels to sail into the industrial and agricultural heartland North America

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What is the Columbian Exchange?

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The trade of goods between Europe and the Americas

29
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What is correlation?

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A relationship between the x-axis and y-axis

30
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What is causation?

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The data on the x-axis causing data on the y-axis

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What is a representative democracy?

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Where the people rule through elected representatives

32
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What is a federal republic?

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Where powers are divided between the national and state governments

33
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What is a postindustrial economy?

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An economy where manufacturing is no longer the dominant profession

34
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What percentage of the American population lives in poverty?

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More than 10%

35
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Where is “America’s Gateway?”

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The northeast

36
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Why is the northeast called “America’s Gateway?”

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Because there are ports there that immigrants come through, there is also fishing and farming there

37
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What is Boswash or Bosnywash?

A

It is the megalopolis of Boston, Washington D.C., and New York

38
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Name some differences of Upper and Lower Canada

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Upper Canada- spoke English, was Protestant

Lower Canada- spoke French, was Roman Catholic

39
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What is a parliamentary government?

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A system in which legislative and executive functions are combined in a legislature called parliament

40
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What two houses form Canada’s parliament?

A

Senate and House of Commons

41
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What are Canada’s Native Americans called?

A

First Nations

42
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What are the Atlantic Provinces of Canada?

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Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland

43
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What are the two major economic activities in the Atlantic Provinces?

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Logging and fishing

44
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What are Canada’s Core Provinces?

A

Ontario and Quebec

45
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Why are Ontario and Quebec referred to as Canada’s Core Provinces?

A

Ontario- has the largest population out of all the provinces

Quebec- has the largest land area out of all the provinces

46
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What are Canada’s Prairie Provinces?

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Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta

47
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What are the major economic activities of the Prairie Provinces?

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They account for 50% of Canada’s agricultural production and are sometimes called Canada’s breadbasket, 60% of Canada’s mineral output is from here as well

48
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What are Canada’s Pacific Provinces and Territories?

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British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut

49
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What is the climate in British Columbia?

A

Tundra

50
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What are the major economic activities in British Columbia?

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Logging, mining, and hydroelectric power production

51
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Which part of Canada is most sparsely populated?

A

Yukon Territories and the Northwest Territories

52
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Why was Nunavut created?

A

For the Inuit

53
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What are the major economic activities of Nunavut?

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Mining, fishing, and some logging

54
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What is gerrymandering?

A

When the political party in power draws the district lines so that they will win elections in the future

55
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What is urban sprawl?

A

The spread of a city wider and wider geographically

56
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What is infrastructure?

A

It consists of basic facilities, services, and machinery for community to function; such as transportation

57
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What is smart growth?

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The efficient use and conservation of land and other resources

58
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What is Portland’s smart growth policy?

A

They drew a line around the city limits to create an urban growth boundary, green space was off limits to developers

59
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What is a sustainable community?

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A community where residents can live and work

60
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How did Vancouver try to stop urban sprawl?

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By making suburbs sustainable communities, they also did this for the downtown area

61
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What is a free enterprise economy?

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One where decisions are made by individuals in the marketplace, also called market

62
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What is a service industry?

A

A kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product

63
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What are multinationals?

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American corporations that engage in business worldwide

64
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How has the American economy changed from 1900 to 2000?

A

Less manufacturing, much less agriculture, and more services

65
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The US is the world’s largest exporter of ____ and largest consumer of _____.

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Food,energy resources

66
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What is the “rust belt?”

A

Some Middle Atlantic states are referred to as this because of their declining and abandoned traditional industries

67
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What is the “sunbelt?”

A

The southwest where the climate is warmer

68
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What are edge cities?

A

Full-fledged employment sub-centers far from a central city

69
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What three factors have accelerated urban sprawl?

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  1. Cars and cheap gasoline
  2. Highways
  3. Digital infrastructure***

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