Ch. 3 The Physical Geography: US & Canada

North America's highest mountain ranges that lie in the West.

How many different geographic regions are in the US and Canada?

Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are forms of _______________.

The Grand Canyon was formed mainly by the process of __________________.

A thick sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.

What does NAFTA stand for?

Another name for a mapmaker.

How many states in the US?

The typical weather in a region over a long period of time.

Which is not one of the 5 Great Lakes?

The state of the atmosphere near Earth at a given time and place.

Weather measures the temperature, wind, speed, and ________ that falls in an area.

Which country is north of the United States?

What types of maps show the natural features of Earth's surface, such as mountains and lakes?

What is the 2nd largest country in the world?

Mountains, valleys, and plateaus are examples of _____________.

What body of water is on the west coast of the US?

Which continent is Greenland on?

What body of water is on the east coast of the US?

To move from one area to settle in another.

Which is not one of the 5 Great Lakes?

Which are not one of the 5 themes of geography?

What continent are the United States and Canada part of?

A network of waterways and their streams is a ___________________.

How many continents are there?

How many different vegetation zones are there in North America?

A region's _____________ include the trees, bushes, and shrubs that grow there.

The _______ of a region is the way business owners use resources to provide goods and services.

A Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark from 1804 to 1806.

This 400-million-year-old mountain range lies west of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

What hemisphere is the United States and Canada located?

Which of the Great Lakes reaches farthest north?