Cultural Geography Chapter 7 Review

Mount Elbert is the tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountains.

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

Terrible storms that move in from over the North Atlantic.

What does piedmont mean?

Lowland area that includes many canyons and unusual rock formations in much of Nevada and Utah.

Rolling hills that stretch about a 1,000 miles across America's heartland.

Sandy plains that stretch inland from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico shores.

Prevailing winds in North America blow from east to west across the center of the continent.

Presented the greatest obstacle to westward expansion.

Include the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coastal ranges.

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

Extends from eastern Canada into northern Alabama.

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

Rainshadow effect influences the region west of the Rockies due to area recving 10+ in. of rain

What river forms a large part of the southern border of the US?

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

The state deriving the largest income from agricultural products is

Mexico is the leading trading partner of the United States.

The Piedmont is characterized by flat grasslands and dry climate.

True freedom and liberty are gifts from God.

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

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

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

Of the 9 million undocumented immigrants in the US in 2006, what % of them were from Mexico?

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

About 80% of Americans live in

The Gulf Coastal Plain doe not extend inland up the Mississippi River Valley into the Midwest

What Constitutional provision for the American government does the 10th Amendment include?

The southern third of the US, from the Carolinas to California, is called the

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

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in Kentucky.

Average of three million people a day cross the US-Canada border.

Called the "Great American Desert" by early pioneers.

An area of many rivers at the eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains.

What kind of government does the United States have?

Which person broke professional baseball's color barrier?

The US-Canada border is the longest nonmilitarized border in the world.

Word used for the line of waterfalls where rivers drop from the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain?