WKA Cultural Geo - Chap 7

Mexico is the leading trading partner of the United States.

Terrible storms that move in from over the North Atlantic.

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

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

About 80 percent of Americans live in

The Gulf Coast Plain does not extend inland up the Mississippi River Valley into the Midwest.

The state deriving the largest income from agricultural products is

Mount Elbert is the tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountians.

Which of the Great Lakes is entirely within the boundaries of the U.S.?

The study of characteristics of people in a particular place is

True freedom and liberty are gifts from God.

Extends from eastern Canada into northern Alabama.

Of the 9-11 million undocumented immigrants in the US in 2006, what percentage was from Mexico?

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

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

What kind of government does the United States have?

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

An average of 3,000,000 people a day cross the US - Canada border.

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

An area of many rivers at the easter base of the Appalachian Mountains

What river forms a large part of the souther border of the U.S.?

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

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

Where does water flowing east of the mountains flows to the Atlantic and water flowing west flows to Great Lakes/Mexico?

The rainshadow effect influences the region west of the Rockies because the area receives only 10-20 in. of rain a year.

Rolling hills that stretch about a thousand miles across America's heartland.

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

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

What does piedmont mean?

Called the "Great American Desert" by early pioneers.

Presented the greatest obstacle to westward expansion

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

What constitutional provision for the American government does the 10th Ammendment include?

Which person broke professional baseball's color barrier?

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

What word is used for the line of many waterfalls where rivers drop from the Piedmont tothe Coastal Plain?

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located in Kentucky.

What event forced a tightening of the border between the U.S. and Canada?

The Piedmont is characterized by flat grasslands and a dry climate.