Quickly, in order to avoid the hazards of their past.
The MacKenzie River flows primarily through
British Colombia
Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec
The Northwest Territories
The Midwestern United States
You would most likely use a wide variety of climate and vegetation along the
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
Continental Divide
Mississippi River
One type of climate found in the United States but not in Canada is
Tundra
Marine West Coast
Tropical Wet and Dry
Humid Continental
The economy of the United States is run on a free enterprise system, in which
Goods and services are sold or traded at the highest profit margin possible
The government retains strict controls over businesses, resources, and technology that are sold or traded for profit.
Businesses, resources, and technology are worker-owned and operated.
The government exerts little control over businesses, resources, and technology operated by private individuals.
The United States is currently in what is called a postindustrial economy because
Manufacturing is no longer the country’s most important industry
World War II caused a significant change in how the country’s industry operated.
The country leads the world in trading
The country’s industrial output is the greatest in the world
_______________ includes the states of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
The West
British Columbia can be found
On Canada’s western coast
Along the Great lakes region
On the Gulf of the St. Lawrence
In Canada’s southeastern corner
Nunavut is
The area of Canada’s most rapid population growth
Home to the Inuit people
Within the Rocky Mountain Range
Home to the First Nations people
A representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed and in which legislative and executive functions are combined.
Representative Democracy
Monarchy
House of Commons
parliament
The Prime Minister of Canada is
The majority party’s leader in Parliament
In Canada, the provinces west of Ontario and Quebec- Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are called
Atlantic Provinces
New England Provinces
Prairie Provinces
Pacific Provinces
A person of mixed French-Canadian and Native American ancestory
nomad
First nations
Metis
Nunavut
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
Free enterprise
Service industry
Postindustrial economy
multinational
North America’s most important deepwater ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River
St. Lawrence Seaway
Mississippi River
Mackenzie River
Hudson Bay
A functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically
frontier
megalopolis
metropolitan area
reserve
A section of the waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered, through which ships may pass
dam
lock
causeway
canal
A region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together.
frontier
megalopolis
metropolitan area
reserve
The highest elevation in North America,___________, is located at 20,000 ft above sea level.
Mt. Everest
Mt. Mackenzie
Mt. McKinley
Mt. Kilimanjaro
The lowest elevation in North America, ___________, is located at 283 feet below sea level.
Death Valley
New Orleans
Dead Sea
Interior Lowlands
A group of Canada’s Native American people
nomad
First nations
Metis
Nunavut
A large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles
Florida Keys
The movement of people within a country or region
immigration
illegal alien
social exchange
migration
A political union
nation
province
confederation
Union
A person with no permanent home who moves according to the season from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land
nomad
First nations
Metis
Nunavut
A political unit
Nation
Province
Confederation
Union
The loose Confederation of Ontario (Upper Canada), Quebec (Lower Canada), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, created by the British North American Act in 1867
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
Louisiana Purchase
Dominion of Canada
The territory, including the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, which the United States purchased from France in 1803
Columbian Exchange