Ch. 5 Physical Geography of United States and Canada

This mountain range along the East Coast of the US is the oldest range in North America.

• Appalachian Mountains
• Rocky Mountains
• Cascade Mountains
• Andes Mountains

Five large lakes located between the United States and Canada containing the largest surface area of fresh water in the world

• Atlantic Ocean
• Great Lakes
• Lake Lanier
• Gulf of Mexico

Which two physical features do the United States and Canada share?

• Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River
• St. Lawrence Seaway and Rocky Mountains
• Mississippi River and the Great Lakes
• Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes

North America's longest river

• St. Lawrence
• Ohio
• Mississippi
• Missouri

a land bridge thought to have connected what are now Siberia and Alaska.

• Golden Gate Bridge
• 1892 Bridge
• Bering strait
• Beringia

a person with no permanent home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

• nomad
• bum
• transient
• hitchhiker

North America's most important deep water ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by the way of the St. Lawrence River.

• Erie Canal
• Panama Canal
• St. Lawrence seaway
• Rio Grande

Canada's longest river, which is part of a river system that flows across the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean.

• The Missouri River
• The Mississippi River
• The Nile River
• The Mackenzie River

permanently frozen ground

• dirt
• permafrost
• permadirt
• permission

a large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles.

• Okeechobee
• Atchafayala
• Everglades
• Ponchetrain