abeka world geography chapter 6 review

Navajo

A southwestern tribe, who make up the second largest American Indian tribe in the US today

Mount Logan

Canada's highest point

Sonoran Desert

Covers the northwest, including Baja California

smallest province

Prince Edward Island

Anglo-America

The US and Canada are often referred to as Anglo-America because the dominant language in those countries is English.

Christopher Columbus

16th century Italian explorer, who sailed west from Spain and landed on an island in the West Indies in 1492. Believed that he could reach the East by sailing West.

Bermuda

A small group of islands in the Atlantic, is often identified with the Caribbean because it has cultural and historical ties to the region.

Province with most oil

Alberta

maquiladoras

American and Japanese businesses have built factories in Mexico, which are called maquiladoras.

Azecs, Montezuma

An Amerindian tribe. Aztec Emperor

Central America

Between Mexico and South America lie seven small countries known collectively as Central America: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Prairie Provinces

Between the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Canadian Rockies lie the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

only Pacific province

British Columbia

Toronto

Canada's largest city. Is the capital of Ontario

Mackenzie River

Canada's longest river

Winnipeg

Capital city of Manitoba. Over 50% of the people of Manitoba live in Winnipeg.

lowest point in North America

Death Valley

West Indies

East of the Yucatan Peninsula, an archipelago trails eastward between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic, where it turns toward South America.

United States

English, Spanish, Hawaiian. Protestant, and Roman Catholic

Belize

English, Spanish, Mayan dialects, Creole. Roman Catholic, and Protestant

Bahamas

English, and Creole. Baptist, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Other

Fidel Castro

Established the Western Hemisphere's first Communist dictatorship and enslaved the Cuban people under a system more oppressive than any other previous dictatorship they had known

Bay of Fundy

Famous for having some of the highest tides in the world (the water level rises up to 50 feet)

Michigan

Four of the Great lakes, Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie, surround the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan

world's largest canyon

Grand Canyon

world's largest prairie

Great Plains

North America's largest inland body of salt water

Great Salt Lake

World's largest island

Greenland

World's largest gulf

Gulf of Mexico

Montreal

Has one of the world's largest inland ports, two large international airports, and the headquarters of Canada's two transcontinental railroads, it serves as the transportation hub of the nation.

Nunavut

It was carved out of the Northwest Territories to provide a self-governing territory for the Inuit, who prefer to follow their own well-established system of civil law and criminal justice.

World's largest freshwater lake in surface area

Lake Superior

Chihuahuan Desert

Lies south of the Rio Grande

Pico de Orizaba

Middle America's highest peak rises to 18,855 feet

Rio Grande

Middle America's longest river, forms part of the U.S.- Mexican border.

North America's largest river

Mississippi river

Latin America

Most of the countries of Middle America are also considered part of Latin America, which includes all of South America. the Term Latin America refers to the dominant language spoken in this part of the world, Spanish, a Latin Language.

highest point in North America

Mount McKinley

"French Province"

New Brunswick

Arctic Archipelago

North America's largest islands rest in this frigid region

separated from New Brunswick by Bay of Fundy

Nova Scotia

Province with largest population`

Ontario

Wilfred Grenfell

Over the Years, he founded hospitals, nursing stations, and trading posts, and extended his ministry to the Native American tribes of the region.

largest province

Quebec

"Canada's Breadbasket"

Saskatchewan

Bering Strait

Separates Alaska and Siberian Russia

Mexico

Spanish. Roman Catholic

Cuba

Spanish. Roman Catholic.

longest inland seaway in the world

St. Lawrence Seaway

Tjuana, and Ciudad Juarez

The Maquiladoras have provided thousands of jobs for middle-class Mexican workers in border cities like Tjuana, and Ciudad Juarez

Mounties

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, better known as Mounties, are trained in Regina. Were established in 1873 to patrol Canada's Northwest Territory. During the early years forces officers were instrumental in keeping Frontier Law & Order assisting settlers, discouraging the whiskey trade, and maintaining Peace during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Isabela

The first European city in the America's

Great Bear Lake

The largest lake located entirely in Canada

Aleutian Islands

The long, narrow Alaska peninsula extends from southwestern Alaska, leading to an archipelago of tiny islands called the Aleutian Islands

Atlantic Provinces

The provinces that border the Atlantic Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Canadian Shield

This saucer-shaped basin surrounding Hudson Bay has the marshy terrain characteristic of a tundra climate in the north and the dense forests, or taiga of a subpolar climate farther south.

Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles

West Indies is divided into to groups, Greater Antilles which are the bigger islands and the Lesser Antilles which are smaller islands

Quebecois

What French speaking Canadians call themselves.

Hernando Cortes

When he discovered Mexico in the 1500s, he and his men found a powerful empire of Amerindians called Aztecs

Sandinistas, Contras

a Communist, who took over the Nicaraguan government with the help of Cuba and the Soviet Union

The Bahamas

a Coral island, North of Cuba, off the East coast of Florida. Developed from accumulation of coral and sand.

Acadians

a group of French farmers

Maya

builders of one of the earliest pre-Columbian empires in America, lived in the area of the Yucatan Peninsula and Guatamala for over 2,000 years

Inuit

built the famous snow houses know as igloos. were dependent on hunting for food, clothing, and fuel and traveled by kayak, dog sled, and umiak, a lightweight whaleboat. All animals, especially seal, were thoroughly used. The fat was used for food and lamp fuel, skins for clothing, intestines for waterproofing, and bones for tools.

Vancouver

has been called "Canada's Gateway to the Pacific." It is the busiest seaport on North America's Pacific coast.

Samuel de champlain

made the king of France interested In starting a settlement in Canada to develop the fur trade.

Guantanamo Bay

maintains a naval base for the purpose of watching over the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal.

mestizos

most of the Mexican people are mestizos

Grand Banks

once a leading source of cold-water fish and shellfish.

Jonathan Goforth

once in China he felt let to minister North Honan, a province so dangerous to missionaries that Hudson Taylor wrote that if he wished to enter North Honan, he must" go forward on his knees."

Metis

one of Canada's native tribes

Hells Canyon

the Deepest canyon in the US, which averages about one mile in depth

Mount Whitney

the highest peak in contiguous states, stands at 14,494 feet

Amerindians

the original inhabitants of Middle America

Great Slave Lake

the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the deepest lake in North America at 614 metres, and the tenth-largest lake in the world. It is 469 km long and 20 to 203 km wide.

Piedmont Plateau

the term piedmont means "at the foot of the mountains." This plateau is level in some places and hilly in others.