Chapter 5 US & Canada

The highest point on the continent and is located at 20, 320 feet is known as the ________.

• Mount McKinley

• Appalachian Mountains

• divide

• Mississippi River

Heavily eroded place and one of North America's oldest mountains is known as the ________.

• Mount McKinley

• Appalachian Mountains

• divide

• Mississippi River

One of North America's longest rivers that flows 2,357 miles. It begins in Minnesota as a stream so narrow. This river is known as the ________.

• Mount McKinley

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Lakes

• Mississippi River

A high point or ridge that determines the direction in which rivers flow is known as the ________.

• Mount McKinley

• Appalachian Mountains

• divide

• Mississippi River

Glaciers gouged the Canadian Shield and tore at the central section of the continent, leaving glacial basins that became filled and known as the ________.

• Mount McKinley

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Lakes

• Mississippi River

The place at which a river begins or source is known as the ________.

• headwaters

• tributaries

• fall line

• fossil fuels

The place at which a river begins or source is known as the ________.

• headwaters

• tributaries

• fall line

• fossil fuels

Smaller rivers and streams that connect two large rivers are known as the ________.

• headwaters

• tributaries

• fall line

• fossil fuels

A boundary that marks the place where the higher land of the Piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain is known as the ________.

• headwaters

• tributaries

• fall line

• fossil fuels

Coal, petroleum, and natural gas are forms of ________. These were formed in the Earth from buried plant and animal remains hundred of millions of years ago.

• headwaters

• tributaries

• fall line

• fossil fuels