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history vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| piedmant | area of rolling hills contains many fast flowing rivers and streams |
| Appalachian mountains | gently sloping |
| great plains | largely treeless area that continues the ascent to about 4,000 feet. |
| Canadian shield | rocky, mainly flat area that covers nearly 2 million square miles. |
| rocky mountains | the other major mountain system of the U.S. and canada |
| death valley | very hot funeral mountains |
| Continental divide | marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward |
| Mt. Mckinley | North Americas highest peak |
| great lakes | Huron, Ontario, Michigan, eire, and superior |
| Makenzie River | flows across the northwest territories |
| Permafrost | permanently frozen ground |
| Humid continual climate | winters are cold and simmers are warm |
| prevailing westerlies | winds that blow from west to east in the middle of the latitudes |
| humid subtropical climate | summers are hot and muggy with temperatures ranging from 75 degrees to 90 degrees |
| Mediterranean climate | summers are dry, sunny, and warm, |
| semiarid climate | 15 inches of rain annually |
| everglades | huge swampland that covers some 4,000 square miles |
| tornado alley | tornadoes strike so often in an area of the great plains |
| nomads | the first inhabitents of the area of north America how known as the Unites States and Canda |
| beringia | A land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska |
| Erie canal | the first navigable water link between the Atlantic and the great lakes |
| St. Lawrence seaway | completed in the 1950s as a joint project of the United States and Canada |
| Locks | sections of a waterway with closed gates |