Question | Answer |
Provinces Considered Canada's "Core Provinces" | Ontario & Quebec |
People who populate Nahavut known as | Invit |
Mackenzie River empty's into | Arctic Ocean |
Canada's main trading partner | USA |
Canada Achieves independence from Great Britain | Great Britain gave independence in 1931 without one shot being fired |
Climate Zone found in the United States but not Canada | Tropical Wet & Dry (South Florida) |
Canada- colder than most of the US | Further North of the Equator and close to the Arctic Circle |
Region of Carolina | "Breadbasket" Prairie Provinces |
Invention of air conditioning | Changed in the movement pattern with US
- Allowed people to tolerate hot climate- population increased as a result |
West
*us | -Rapidly growing
-dry
-trade centers |
Settlers
"North American arrive" Where did they cross? | Beringia (Asia- nomads) |
Louisiana Purchase | 1803 Doubled the size of the United States |
Montreal, Quebec adapt to cold environment- | Built large underground areas to be able to make life more bearable in the cold winters |
5 themes of geography | Human Environment Interaction |
Negative consequences on urban sprawl | air pollution, traffic, lack of resources (like water), building an earthquake- Prone land |
Houstons Climate | Humid Subtropical |
South
*us | increasing population agriculture
"sunbelt" |
British North American Act | limited Canadian self government
-gave canada parshall independence
- still part of british Empire |
Core
*canada | Most populated
- economic provices
"strong" |
Landforms shared by US and Canada | -Rocky Mountains
- Great plains
-interior plains
-Appalachian Highlands |
Northeast
*US | Industrialized
-high population density
- "Rust Belt" |
Midwest
*US | -farming
-trade centers
-fertile soil
-found in great plains
"breadbasket" |
Landforms not shared with US and Canada | -gulf Alantic Coastal plains
-piedmont
- interior Highlands
- Arctic Coastal Plains |
Applachian Mountains | Smaller than Rocky Mountains because of age and erosion |
Praire | Vancouver because of immigration sparsely populated otherwise |
Sunbelt | Nickname of land stretching from southern California to the Carolinas |
Atlantic | Harsh weather
Fishing and logging industries |