US & Canada Vocabulary

One of two major mountain chains in the eastern United States and Canada, Extending 1,600 miles from Newfoundland south to Alabama

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Rocky Mountains

A vast grassland of central North America that is largely treeless and ascends to 4,000 feet above sea level

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Rocky Mountains

A northern part of the interior lowlands that is a rocky, flat region covering nearly two million square miles and encircling Hudson Bay

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Rocky Mountains

A major mountain system of the United States and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Rocky Mountains

The line of the highest points in North America that marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward

• Continental Divide

• Great Lakes

• Permafrost

• Prevailing Westerlies

A group of five freshwater lakes of central North America between the United States and Canada; the lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior

• Continental Divide

• Great Lakes

• Permafrost

• Prevailing Westerlies

Permanently frozen ground

• Continental Divide

• Great Lakes

• Permafrost

• Prevailing Westerlies

Winds that blow from west to east

• Continental Divide

• Great Lakes

• Permafrost

• Prevailing Westerlies

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

• Everglades

• Nomad

• Beringia

• St. Lawrence Seaway

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

• Everglades

• Nomad

• Beringia

• St. Lawrence Seaway