USA and Canada

Question 1

What contributes to climate change and the rising of Earth's temperatures?

Accepted Answer

carbon dioxide

Question 2

How did the Great Lakes Form?

Accepted Answer

Glaciers Melting

Question 3

Why was the Mississippi River an important trade route?

Accepted Answer

let cities along the river trade with the rest of the world.

Question 4

From what region did most foreign born immigrants come to the United States?

Accepted Answer

Latin America

Question 5

What are the Great Plains of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Flat area East of Rocky's

Question 6

It is important to conserve fossil fuels because they are_______

Accepted Answer

nonrenewable

Question 7

The ocean current called the ___________ plays a major role in Canada's climate

Accepted Answer

Gulf Stream

Question 8

Why is the environmental condition of the Gulf of Mexico important?

Accepted Answer

Fishing, jobs

Question 9

Canada is considered a postindustrial society because______

Accepted Answer

lot of service jobs

Question 10

Canada is considered a post (after) industrial society because of its

Accepted Answer

high level of employment in the service sector.

Question 11

How was geography important to the New England economy?

Accepted Answer

timber and harbors

Question 12

Since the 1960's a lot of the population of the Manufacturing Belt has moved from there to the

Accepted Answer

Sun Belt

Question 13

Water is pumpedin large amountsfrom the Edwards aquifier to supply the city of _____________?

Accepted Answer

San Antonio

Question 14

What river flows 2,350 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi River

Question 15

Why is the US the most ethnically diverse country in the world?

Accepted Answer

immigrants from everywhere

Question 16

What US State has a subartic climate and has a lot of wild life?

Accepted Answer

Alaska

Question 17

The extraction of natural resources coal, oil and natural gas make people worry about?

Accepted Answer

climate change

Question 18

What city built levees to protect it from flooding, but failed due to a hurricane in 2005?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 19

The ___ stretch 3,000 miles from New Mexico to Alaska?

Accepted Answer

Rocky Mountains

Question 20

Which two states have the largest petroleum reserves?

Accepted Answer

Texas, Alaska

Question 21

The first factories built were located along the Fall Line because________________

Accepted Answer

waterfalls provide power

Question 22

A wind turbine is a source of _________________________

Accepted Answer

renewable energy

Questions 22