9th Grade Test 7

What word is used for the line of many waterfalls where rivers drop from the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain?

The highest point in North America is which of the following mountains?

What extends from eastern Canada into northern Alabama?

How many people a day cross the U.S.–Canada border?

What does piedmont mean?

This current flows across the northwest coast of North America, bringing plentiful rains.

What kind of government does the United States have?

About eighty percent of Americans live in...

What extends inland up the Mississippi River Valley into the Midwest.

What resented the greatest obstacle to westward expansion?

Which of the Great Lakes is entirely within the boundaries of the United States?

What is a lowland area that includes many canyons and unusual rock formations in much of Nevada and Utah?

What is an area of many rivers at the eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains?

To what kind of natural disaster are the Atlantic and Gulf coasts particularly susceptible?

The longest nonmilitarized border in the world.

What are sandy plains that stretch inland from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico shores?

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located in what state?

The state deriving the largest income from agricultural products is...

The Piedmont is characterized by flat grasslands and a dry climate.

What Constitutional provision for the American government does the tenth amendment include?

What phrase describes the type of economy the United States has?

The prevailing winds in North America blow from __________ across the center of the continent.

The study of the characteristics of people in a particular place is

Where waters flow east into the Atlantic or west into the Mississippi or Great Lakes

What includes the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coastal ranges?

True freedom and liberty are gifts from God.

What makes the region west of the Rockies receive less than twenty inches of precipitation each year?

Which person broke professional baseball’s color barrier?

Who is the second leading trading partner of the United States?

What event forced a tightening of the border between the United States and Canada?

What are terrible storms that move in from over the North Atlantic?

What is the tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountains?

Of the 9–11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2006, what percentage of them was from Mexico?

Which state is the largest in area among the “lower forty-eight” states?

What are rolling hills that stretch about a thousand miles across America’s heartland?

What river forms a large part of the southern border of the United States?

Which of the following is an active volcano in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest?

What is called the “Great American Desert” by early pioneers?

The southern third of the United States, from the Carolinas to California, is called the...