Discovering World Geography Chapter 5 Test Review

A lake located high in the Sierra Nevada mountains is a popular place for boating and other types of water recreation.

This body of water borders Louisiana and Texas and includes ports in New Orleans and Houston.

True or False: Accidents involving oil transport or drilling cause devastating harm to the environment.

Lake formed when the Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River. A popular recreation area.

What mountain range is considered to be a Cordillera?

Which of the following is an interior city?

Which two countries are the largest markets for exports from the United States?

True or False: Natural disasters such as volcanoes, wildfires, mudslides, & earthquakes damage property and cause death

What are the primary economic activities in the western US?

Which of the following is a rural area?

Year US annexes Texas

What are the energy resources in the western United States?

True or False: Open borders make it impossible for people to enter the country illegally.

True or False: Low rainfall and limited resources improve crops.

What event led to the Lewis and Clark expedition?

These five rivers flow eastward, and four of them empty into the Mississippi River.

What affects climates in the coastal US and the highland regions?

Who were the first people to live in the United States west of the Mississippi River?

Which of the following is a port city?

What do Alaska and Hawaii have in common?

Year US annexes Hawaii

The largest salt lake in the Americas, it changes in size because of evaporation.

Who were the first Europeans to come to the region and settle in El Paso, Texas.

Which state can claim to have the highest point in the United States?

Year US gains control of Oregon and Washington from Great Britain

Located north of the Colorado River, this river flows from the mountains into the Pacific Ocean.

This is an enormous salt-water ocean that borders the West Coast of the United States.

What provision of the Homestead Act encouraged people to move west of the Mississippi River?

Year US buys Alaska from Russia

One of the most important rivers west of the Mississippi, this river begins in the Rocky Mountains and flows south/west.

What mountain range near the Pacific coast still has active volcanoes?

These two rivers run westward and feed into the Columbia River

True or False: More older people mean higher costs for Medicare and Social Security.

What landforms make up Alaska?

Year President Jefferson buys Louisiana Territory

What are the secondary economic activities in the western US?

Climates in the interior region are generally

What are the minderal resources in the Western United States?

Year US gets California, Utah, Nevada, parts of Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico

What is the major fault system that cuts through western California?

A large area of elevated land is a