Unit 2 US and Canada Study Guide

The cultivation of seafood

Aquaculture

A channel or pipeline for moving large quantities of water

Aqueduct

What is the largest ethnic group in the United States

Asian Americans

A seasonal warm wind that blows down the Rocky Mountains in late winter and early spring

Chinook

What historical event shaped the way the US has progressed and continues to play a major role in America's development

Civil War

The dry area between the Pacific Ranges and the Rocky Mountains are

Columbia Platau

A physical feature that determines the direction of river flow

Divide

A partially self-governing country with close ties to another country

Dominion

What are farming techniques which rely solely on natural water to water crops

Dry Farming

Why were the first factories in the United States located along the fall line in the Northeast

Eastern rivers break into rapids and waterfalls, preventing ships from the Atlantic ocean from traveling farther in land.

To leave one's own country to settle permanently in another

Emigrate

The eastern United States boundary where the elevated Piedmont area drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain

Fall Line

What are resources formed from the remains of plants and animals

Fossil Fuels

NAFTA is an example of the United States, Mexico and Canada opening to

Free trade

A place on the ocean floor through which magma vents to create an underwater volcano that may grow into an Island

Hot Spot

A powerful tropical storm that forms over warm ocean waters

Hurricane

A member of the Artic native peoples of North America; once known as Eskimo

Inuit

What is foreclosure

Legal proceeding in which a borrowers rights to a property are relinquished

Due to variety of ethnic and religious groups, this region Is called "typically American"

Manifest Destiny

A region in the north eastern and Midwestern United States characterized by its heavy industrial concentration

Manufacturing Belt

What do you call the major population concentration that runs from Boston to Washington D.C

Megalopolis

In what region would you find the largest number of Asian Americans

Mid-Atlantic

What region of the United States is known as the "Breadbasket"

Midwest

Where do the largest concentrations of Asians and Pacific Islanders live in the United States

Native Hawaiian

What region of the United States has shifted from industry to technologies and insurance

New England

Complex forest that has developed over a long period and is relatively untouched by human activity

Old-growth forest

French-speaking inhabitants of a city in eastern Canada

Quebecois

The breaking away of one part of a country to create an independent country

Separatism

Haze caused by the interaction of ultraviolet solar radiation with chemical fumes from pollution sources

Smog

What do you call the interaction of solar energy and pollutants

Smog

The headwaters or beginning of a river is called the

Source

What region of the US is known as the "Bible-Belt"

South

A community lying on the fringes of a metropolitan area

Suburb

What is a community adjacent to a metropolitan

Suburb

What is the Nickname of the southwestern part of the US called

Sunbelt

An underground layer naturally impregnated with petroleum

Tar Sands

Which two U.S. states have the largest petroleum reserves

Texas and Alaska

elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow

Timberline

A smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river

Tributary

What do you call a smaller river that feeds into a larger river

Tributary