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U.S. and Canada Voc
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Continental Divide | line of the highest points in North America that marks the seperation between rivers flowing eastward and westward. |
Permafrost | permanently frozen on the ground |
Prevailing Westerlies | Winds that blow from west to east |
Everglades | large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles |
Nomad | a person with no permanent home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land |
Beringia | land bridge thought to have connected what are now Siberia and Alaska |
St. Lawrence Seaway | North America's most important deepwater ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River |
Lock | section of a water way with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered, through which ships passed |
Representative Democracy | government in which the people rule through elected representatives |
New England | consists of the six northern states in the Northeast United States- Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut |
The Midwest | region that contains the 12 states of the north-central United States |
The South | region that covers about one-forth of the land area of the United States and contains more than one-third of its population |
The West | North American region, consisting of 13 states, that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the Pacific |
Province | Political unit |
Dominion of Canada | loose confederation of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, created by the British North American Act if 1867 |
Parliamentary Government | a system where legislative and executive functions are combined in which legislature called parliament |
Paliament | representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed and in which legislative and executive unctions are combined |
Prime Minister | head of a government; the majority party's leader in parliament |
First Nations | group of Canada's Native American people |
Metis | a person of mixed French-Canadian and NAtive American ancestry |
Reserve | public land set aside for native peoples by the government |
Atlantic Provinces | provinces in Eastern Canada-Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. |
Prairie Provinces | in Canada, they are west of Ontario and Quebec-Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta |
British Columbia | Canada's westernmost province, located within the Rocky Mountain range |
Nunavut | one of Canada's territories and home to many of Canada's Inuit; it was carved out of the eastern half of the Northwest Territories in 1999 |