Geo Chapter 5 Vocabulary Review

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

• Andes Mountains
• Rocky Mountains
• Appalachian Mountains
• Himalayan Mountains

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

• The Great Plains
• The Eurasian Steppe
• The Salt Plains
• The Serengeti

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

• capoeira
• caucusas
• Canadian sheild
• Chisholm trail

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

• The Andes 
• The Rockies
• The Alps
• The Appalachians

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

• continentality
• continental drift
• continental divide
• continental breakfast

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.

• Moss Lake
• Lake Texhoma
• Saint Lawrence seaway
• The Great Lakes

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

Winds that blow from west to east.

• prevailing westerlies
• prevailing easterlies
• doldrums
• horse latitudes

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

• Okeechobee
• Atchafayala
• Everglades
• Ponchetrain