Unit Test - North America

The Inuit makes up the largest percentage of Greenland's population.

Famine is a shortage of food that results in people dying of starvation.

A panhandle is a long thin strip of land projecting from a larger area.

Indigenous means able to fly.

Canada's borders include Alaska, Artic & Pacific Oceans.

New Mexico is in the West region.

Maritime is a clock that ships use.

A hurricane is not a severe, whirling storm over the ocean.

Canada is the only nation of North America that has 2 official languages.

Oregon is in the South region.

An aquifer is an underground source of water.

A federation is a government system where power is shared between two levels.

Arkansas is in the Northeast region.

An archipelago is a group of islands clustered together.

Overfishing is the removal of fish from an area at a rate faster than the fish can replace themselves.

Canada and the U.S. both serve as international peacekeepers.

The Peary Land and coastal regions of Greenland are not covered in ice.

Per capita means two capitals.

Factors that threaten the forests of North America are logging, wildfires, & non-native species.

A peninsula is land surrounded by water on three sides.

The Ring of Fire is the circle of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.

Globalization is the integration of world economies or cultures.

West Virginia is in the South region.

North Dakota is in the Midwest region.

A superpower is a nation with the economic and political strength to influence global events.

To privatize means to transfer ownership from the government to the private sector.

Both Canada & the U.S. are nations that  have high standards of living.

Greenland is not a country that participates in NAFTA.

An isthmus is a thin strip of land that connects two larger land masses.

A megalopolis is a heavily populated urban area.

Multicultural means of many cultures.

A tsunami is a large wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcano.

The mainland is the principal land mass of a continent or country.

Massachusetts is in the Northeast region.

Erosion, oil spills, & non-native species  threaten our marine ecosystem.

Canada and Greenland are the least populated in North America.

A representative democracy is a government system under which the people elect leaders to make laws for them.

Bicultural is of two languages or cultures.

Conservation is the responsible use and management of natural resources.

Nomadic is concerning a people who move from place to place.

Seismic is of or caused by the movement of the earth from the shifting of tectonic plates.

Permafrost is permanently frozen soil.

A fall line is an area where rivers drop from high elevations to coastal plains.

Aquaculture is the growing of plants or animals in freshwater or marine ecosystems.

Connecticut is in the Northeast region.

Canada and the U.S. are two countries best represent the concept of globalization.

Missouri is in the West region.

Mexico has high unemployment, low standard of living, and lack of economic development.

A sinkhole is a depression in the land generally caused when rain dissolves limestone soils.

A municipality is a town, city, or village that is generally run by a mayor or council.

Most of Canada's population lives in it's cities and on it's Southern border.

A cavern is an underground area usually created when limestone is dissolved.