Western Hemisphere Review Game

The first factories were located along the fall line in the Northeast because...

Peoples whose ancestry includes both indigenous people and Spanish heritage are called

Complex forest...developed over a long period of time...relatively untouched by human activity.

Panama is an

Early Mexican civilization which engaged in long-distance trade and build stone cities.

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

In Mexico, generations of families living together, including cousins and other relatives.

An underground layer naturally impregnated with petroleum.

A channel or pipeline for moving large quantities of water.

The eastern U.S. boundary where the elevated Piedmont area drops to the lower coastal plain.

Which of the following is a benefit of wetlands, such as the Florida Everglades?

Large agricultural estates

Since the 1960s, the number of businesses moving to the Sunbelt has

The flat inland area between the Sierra Madres; home to much of Mexico's agri and population.

What do scientists believe causes climate change and rising of the Earth's temperature?

The fertile grasslands found in inland areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

Small family farms.

The flat region surrounding the Great Lakes.

Haze caused by interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from pollution.

The process through which arable land become dry and can support little or no vegetation.

When population growth reduces the ability of the environment to support the population.

A dry, barren, and windy area east of the Andes Mountains.

An urban area that dominates a country's eco, political, and gov't & in which pop. is centered.

The cultivation of a single crop over a wide area for a consecutive number of years.

A new type of environmentally responsible travel.

Loss of biodiversity and extinction of species in Central America is caused by

Technological and economic growth that does not deplete an areas human and natural resources.

A region in the NE and midwestern U.S. characterized by its heavy industrial concentration.

The cultivation of seafood.

A business that employs workers out of their homes.

Giant core of rock anchoring North America that is centered on Hudson Bay and James Bay.

A slum on the edge of a city which lacks running water and sanitation systems.

How has the U.S. economy changed since the 1950s?

The dry area between the Pacific Ranges and the Rocky Mountains.

Two causes of deforestation in Mexico.

A place that hosts a great variety of plants and animals and is under threat.

Why did many indigenous communities in South America develop in isolation?

The elevation above which it is too cold to grow trees.

Spanish for the "high plain" region in Peru and Bolivia that is encircled by the Andes.

Heavy resource extraction in Canada is causing which area to shrink in size?

Which river's basin is home to the world's largest rain forest?

What has been the effect of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest?

Which landform runs through both the United States and Canada?

The transfer of plants, animals, people and diseases between the East and West hemispheres.

Which is NOT a major crop exported from South America?

Since the 1960s, the population of the manufacturing belt has

The Great Antilles and Lesser Antilles.

Highly skilled engineers who built a network of roads through the Andes.

A condition in which some places do not benefit as much from social and economic advances.

An early Mexican civilization whose capital was on the site of present-day Mexico City.