Cultural Geography Chapter 5 Review

What is J

The monument that features likenessess of four U.S. Presidents is the Statue of Liberty

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

The United States economy is a system of limited capitalism

The longest river in the United States is the Missouri, flowing 2,340 miles from its headwaters

For many Americans, liberty is mainly about freedom from authorities or laws.

What is the US' southernmost state?

What is B

The greatest population growth is occurring in which section of the United States?

The United States government is a federal republic rather than a pure democracy

Water that go down the east side of the Western Continental Divide go into the MissiR/Gulf;Where do the west waters go?

The phrase Free Market Enterprise best describes the type of economy the United States has

What is one of the easiest resources to conserve?

What is the area where waters flowing down the east of mountains run into Atlantic, and the west side to Gulf of Mexico?

Which of these are NOT a branch of the US Government?

What is E

The area between the dense population of the city and the sparse population of rural areas is called the

Waters from the eastern side of the Eastern Cont. Divide empty into the GreatLakes / Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi

______ declared in the Gettysburg Address that the United States was “conceived in Liberty.”

What is I

The LONGEST river (not largest) in the US is the ______, flowing 2,340 miles from it's headwaters

The Piedmont lies west of the Coastal Plain and forms the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

What is L

Salt Lake City, Utah, is the headquarters of which religious group?

What term refers to an underground layer of water-bearing rock or sediment from which groundwater can be extracted?

What is the governing document that is the "law of the land" in the United States?

Area in the south that extends up through the Mississippi River Valley into the Midwest is called the

What is M

Hawaii is separated from the lower forty eight states by Canada

The Mississippi is the longest river in the United States

The prevailing wind that brings much rain to the northwestern corner of the United States is called the Japanese Current

What is G

What is C

English philosopher who focused on a person’s right to life/liberty/property; rights that came from the state of nature

What are the severe storms that sometimes hit the states of the northeast called?

What method is used to extract oil or natural gas that was previously considered to be too expensive to extract?

What are the four core values that Americans from colonial times to the present have held dear?

The curent flows across the northwest coast of North America, bringing plentiful rains

Which president featured on Mount Rushmore represents the nation’s birth?

The southern third of the United States from the Carolinas to California is called the

The number of Americans who are 65 years of age and older is expected to triple by 2050

America's first national park was established during the administration of Abraham Lincoln.

What is D

The United States is governed by a federal democracy

Which American colonists valued the freedom to submit to Christ their King?

The southernmost US state is Hawaii, a chain of volcanic islands near the center of the Pacific Ocean

What is the area between the Rocky Mountains and the mountains along the Pacific Coast called?

The temps of ____ are affected greatly by the warming/cooling of the great landmass of the heart of the N. Am. continent

A major part of studying geography is understanding

What is F

What word best describes the people and greography of the United States?

What refers to the low amount of rainfall that occurs east of a mountain range?

What formed the Pacific, Rocky, and Appalachian mountain ranges?

Just as diversity characterizes the geography of the United States, it also describes the American People

The Rocky Mountains mark the western boundary of the_______________

What is A

What is K

What is another name for the source of a river?

About 82 percent of Americans live in

What is H

Which of the following is not one of America's core values?

The prevailing winds in North America blow from east to west across the center of the continent