The United States and Canada
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
