Usa & Canada Vocabulary

Question 1

Tributary

Answer 1

A small river or stream that feeds into a larger river

Question 2

Divide

Answer 2

A high point or ridge that determines the direction rivers flow

Question 3

Hurricane

Answer 3

A large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean water

Question 4

Fossil fuel

Answer 4

A resource formed in the earth by plant and animal remains

Question 5

Underground Railroad

Answer 5

A network of safe house in the US that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom

Question 6

Manufacturing Belt

Answer 6

A concentrated region of manufacturing industries in the northeastern and midwestern US

Question 7

Immigrate

Answer 7

To change residence from a country to begin living permanently in another country

Question 8

Sunbelt

Answer 8

A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern portion of the United States

Question 9

Megalopolis

Answer 9

A large population concentration made up of several large and many smaller cities, such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C

Question 10

Jazz

Answer 10

Musical form the developed in the United States in the early 1900s, blending African Rhythms and European Harmonies

Question 11

Postindustrial

Answer 11

Economy that emphasizes services and technology rather than industry and manufacturing

Question 12

Acid Rain

Answer 12

Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids,which kill wildlife and damages building, forest, and crops

Question 13

Smog

Answer 13

Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from automobile exhaust and other pollutions sources

Question 14

Eutrophication

Answer 14

Prices by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients, leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen in the water

Question 15

Aqueduct

Answer 15

A channel or pipeline for carrying a large quantity of flowing water

Question 16

Petrochemical

Answer 16

Chemical product derived from petroleum or natural gas

Question 17

Agribusiness

Answer 17

Industries involved in the production, distribution, and marketing for farm products, supplies, and equipment

Question 18

Escarpment

Answer 18

A steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface

Question 19

Norther

Answer 19

A blast of cold northern air that sweeps across the plains, causing winter temperatures to drop below freezing.

Question 20

Maquiladora

Answer 20

A manufacturing plant owned by a foreign country

Question 21

Timeberline

Answer 21

Elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow

Question 22

Chinook

Answer 22

A seasonal warm wind that blows down the Rockies in late winter and early spring

Question 23

Tar sands

Answer 23

Sand or sandstone naturally Inpergented with petroleum

Question 24

Fishery

Answer 24

An area in which fish or seas animals are caught

Question 25

Overfishering

Answer 25

Harvesting fish to the point that species are depleted and the value of the fishery reduces

Question 26

Aquaculture

Answer 26

The cultivation of seafood

Question 27

Inuit

Answer 27

Member of the arctic native peoples of North America; once known as Eskimo

Question 28

First Nation

Answer 28

One of the indigenous people of Canada who neither Inuit nor Metis

Question 29

Dominion

Answer 29

A partially self governing country with close ties to another country

Question 30

Quebecois

Answer 30

French speaking inhabitants

Question 31

Separatism

Answer 31

The breaking away of one part of a country to create a separate, independent country

Question 32

Loyalists

Answer 32

An American colonist who remained loyal to the British gorverment

Question 33

Emigrate

Answer 33

To leave ones own country to settle permanently in another

Question 34

Old growth forest

Answer 34

Complex forest that had developed over a long period of time and is relatively untouched by human activity