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How the U.S. and Canada appear from outer space

What is one large landmass?

The landform that lies between the Rockies and the Appalachians

What is a huge plains area?

A major landform found in both the U.S. and Canada

What are the Rocky Mountains?

Why the Prairie Provinces and the St. Lawrence Lowlands are

important to Canada’s economy

What is they are major agricultural regions?

Few people live here because the land is too rugged to live on

What is Canadian Shield?

They formed the Great Lakes

What are glaciers?

A major use of the rivers in the Quebec Province

What is hydroelectricity?

Why the Great Lakes are important to the U.S. and Canada

What is they are major shipping routes that connect the Great Lakes

to the Atlantic Ocean?

Silt left by rivers after a flood

What is alluvial soil?

The largest group of freshwater lakes in the world

What are the Great Lakes?

How Canada’s climate is affected by its northern latitude

What is Canada is very cold?

Permanently frozen subsoil of which the surfaces thaws only during the

Arctic summer

What is permafrost?

The dry side of a mountain that receives little rain

What is rain shadow?

Size of the U.S. and Canada

What is a factor that accounts for the great variety of climates?

Latitude, mountains, oceans

What are factors that affect climate?

The four types of vegetation or plant life in the U.S. & Canada

What are tundra, grassland, desert scrub and forest?

A cold dry region in the Arctic that is covered with snow for more than

half the year

What is the tundra?

It receives little rainfall, is desert or semiarid, has few plants and cannot support many people (but sheep love

grazing on it).

What is desert scrub?

A region of flat, or rolling land covered with grasses

What is a prairie?

Uses today include growing corn, soybeans, wheat, and raising cattle

What are grasslands or prairies?

How the huge plains area in Canada and the U.S. affect the way people

there live

What is the rich soil makes good farmland?

Produces more hydroelectricity than any other dam in the U.S.

What is the Grand Coulee dam?

Largest oil reserves in North America

Where is along the northern coast of Alaska?

U.S.’s major natural resources include soil, water, timber, farmland

and ________.

What are minerals?

Where much of Canada’s mineral wealth is located

What is the Canadian Shield?