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APS Social Studies
Physical Geography of the United States and Canada
Question | Answer |
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Mount McKinley | located in the Alaska Range it is the highest point on the continent |
The Rocky Mountains | stretch for more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico to Alaska |
The Great Plains | sometimes called the interior plains or the high plains because of their location and elevation |
Canadian Shield | a giant core of rock centered on the Hudson and James Bays. |
Appalachian Mountains | North Americas' oldest mountain range extending 1,500 miles from Quebec to Alabama |
a divide | a high point or Ridge that determines the direction that rivers flow |
Headwaters | the source of the river |
Tributaries | brooks, rivers or streams that connect with a main river |
The Mississippi River | one of North America's longest rivers, it is one of the world's busiest waterways |
the fall line | marks the place where the higher land of the piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal plain often see rapids and waterfalls |
fisheries | places for catching fish and other sea mamals |
The Grand Banks | was once one of the world's richest fishing grounds |
Timberline | the elevation above which trees cannot grow |
the Chinook | a warm wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies rapidly melting and evaporating snow from the base of a mountain |
The Prairies | a naturally treeless expanse of grasses spread across the continent's midsection |
supercells | violent spring and summer thunderstorms that spawn tornadoes |
Hurricanes | ocean storms hundreds of miles wide with winds 74 miles per hour or more |
Blizzards | winds of more than 35 miles an hour with heavy or blowing snow |
Death Valley | has the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States |