Question | Answer |
MACKENZIE RIVER | Canada's longest river, which is part of a river system that flows across the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean. |
GREAT PLAINS | a vast grassland of central North America that is largely treeless and ascends to 4,000 feet above sea level. |
MISSISSIPPI RIVER | a major river that runs north-south almost the length of the United States, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, and is part of the longest river system on the continent. |
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY | a government in which the people rule through elected representatives. |
FREE ENTERPRISE | an economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government. |
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE | the movement of plants,, animals and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration |
MULTINATIONALS | a corporation that engages in business worldwide |
SERVICE INDUSTRY | any kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product |
MEGALOPOLIS | a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together |
POSTINDUSTRIAL ECONOMY | an economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominate role |
DOMINION OF CANADA | the loose confederation of Ontario (Upper Canada), Quebec (Lower Canada), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, created by the British North American Act in 1867. |
FIRST NATIONS | a group of Canada's Native American people. |
PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT | a system where legislative and executive functions are combined in a legislature called a parliament. |
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF CANADA | English and French |
RESERVES FOR NATIVE PEOPLES IN CANADA | a public land set aside for native people by the government |
PRIME MINISTER | the head of a government, the majority party's leader in parliament. |
PERMAFROST | permanently frozen ground |
ROCKY MOUNTAINS | a major mountain system of the United States and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico. |
BERINGIA | a land bridge thought to have connected what are now Siberia and Alaska |
EVERGLADES | a large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles. |
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS | one of two major mountain chains in the eastern UnitedStates and Canada, extending 1,600 miles from Newfoundland south to Alabama |
PREVAILING WESTERLIES | winds that blow from west to east |
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. |
CANADIAN PROVINCES | a political unit. Atlantic Providences, Core Provinces, Prairie Provinces,
Pacific Province and Territories. |