The United States and Canada

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What type of government is the United States?

Constitution-based federal republic

The most populous country in North America is?

The United States

What is the capital of the United States?

Washington D.C.

When is America's independence celebrated?

July 4th, 1776

Which three provinces are located within the Great Plains region of Canada and supply most of its agricultural production?

Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

What country is the biggest island on the planet?

Greenland

What rocky interior lowland region encircles the Hudson Bay?

The Canadian Shield

What group of lakes forms part of the border between the United States and Canada?

The Great Lakes

What are the two most common languages spoken in the US?

English and Spanish

What is the name is the largest fresh water lake in the world by area. It is located on the border between the United States and Canada.

Lake Superior

The North American and South American continents are thought to have been named after what Italian Explorer?

Amerigo Vespucci.

What is the nationality of America?

Americans

North America before the Eurpoans included many Native American tribes in the United States and the what civilization in what is now Mexico.

Aztec

What body of water does the Mississippi empty into from the lowland known as the Coastal Plain? What major rivers are also tributaries of the Mississippi?

Gulf of Mexico. Missouri and Ohio Rivers

What U.S. state does not lie within the continent of North America?

Hawaii

Which city is located farthest South? What state is it in?

Honolulu, Hawaii

Through what states does the Mississippi River flow or form a natural border?(10)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

What is the geographical high point of the United States?

Mount Denali formerly known as Mount McKinley

America is about half the size of one country?

Russia

What group of lakes serves as a major shipping channel through its connection to the St. Lawerence River? Name individual lakes.

The Great Lakes: Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior.

The longest river in America is?

The missouri

the largest river in America is?

the mississippi

North America is the what largest continent?

third

It is the what largest and the what most populous continent

third, fourth

What U.S. state is located near the Arctic Circle and shares a border with Canada's Yukon Territory?

Alaska

Which states share a border with Mexico?

California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

What country is slightly larger than the United States in area making it the second largest country by area in the world (after Russia).

Canada

What countries are usually considered part of North America, but they have their own section here.

Central America and the Caribbean

Who is given much credit as having discovered America, there were plenty of people already living in North America prior to the Europeans having arrived.

Columbus

What is the geographical low point of the United States?

Death Valley

The city with the largest population in North America is?

Mexico City, Mexico

What mountain range extends 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico?

The Rocky Mountains

What currency does the US have?

US dollar

What are the two most common religions?

protestant and roman catholic

What are the political units in Canada called?

provinces and territories


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