What is the capital of the United States?
? Washington, D.C.
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa, Ontario
Which country in North America has the shortest life expectancy?
United States
Which country in North America has French as one of its official languages?
Canada
What province in Canada has passed laws promoting the use of French in the province?
Quebec
What is the oldest mountain range in North America?
Appalachian Mountains
What geographical are is found along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
Coastal Plains
Which North American mountain range extends from eastern Canada to western Alabama and includes the Piedmont?
Appalachian Mountains
Which geographical area of North America is located west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains?
Interior lowlands
What geographical area of North America is located west of the interior lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains?
Great Plains
What geographical area of North America is characterized by flat land gradually increasing in elevation westward?
Great Plains
Which geographical region is characterized by rolling flat lands with many rivers, r=broad river valleys and grassy hills?
Interior Lowlands
Which North American mountain range is located west of the Great Plains and east of the Great Basin?
Rocky Mountains
Which mountain range contains the Continental Divide?
Rocky Mountains
What does the Continental Divide determine?
The directional flow of rivers
What North American mountain range is characterized by high elevations?
Rocky Mountains
What North American mountain range is located from Alaska to almost Mexico?
Rocky Mountains
What geographical are of North America is located west of the Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades mountain ranges?
The Great Basin
Which geographical area of North America contains the lowest point in North America?
The Great Basin
What geographical area of North America stretches from California to Canada and contains fertile valleys and rugged mountains?
Coastal Range
Which geographical area of North America features glacial lakes and some of the oldest rock formations in North America?
The Canadian Shield
What body of water does the Candian Shield surround?
Hudson Bay
What geographical area of North America is said to resemble a horseshoe?
The Canadian Shield
What is created when mountain ranges block moisture coming in from oceans causing the leeward side of the mountain to be very dry?
A rainshadow effect
In the rain shadow effect which side of the mountain is caused to be the most wet?
Windward side
In the rain shadow effect which side of the mountain is caused to be the most dry?
Leeward side
Which direction does the Jet Stream flow?
West to East
What is the term for a strong wind pattern flowing from the west to the east in North America?
Jet Stream
What is the name for a military alliance between the US, Canada and European countries?
NATO
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
What does NAFTA mean?
North American Free Trade Agreement
What does NAFTA do?
reduce trade barriers
What countries are parties to NAFTA?
US, Canada, Mexico
What is the historical name for the southern United States?
Dixie
Why would an area be called the "breadbasket"?
Food is produced in that area
What is the term for the area of the US that produces frequent tornadoes?
Tornado Alley
What type of economy does the US and Canada operate under?
Market Economy
What is the largest are of economic growth in the US and Canada?
The service industry
What do "dirty industries" produce?
Pollution
What is the financial market located in the US that serves as the center of world financial markets termed?
New York Stock Exchange
What is the term for a system of government in which the power is vested or given to the people?
Democracy
What is the term for the spreading of a cultural trait from one society to another?
Cultural Diffusion
What is cultural convergence?
When cultures merge and join