Americas Cumulative Review

River that cuts through the middle of the USA

• Rio Grande

• Amazon

• St. Lawerence

• Mississippi

Archipelago

• man made waterway

• group of chain of islands

• narrow strip of land connecting large bodies of land

why do most Canadians live in the southern part of their country

• they trade with the US a lot

• better lakes

• too extreme of climate in the north

• the government makes them

increased immigration in the west of the US and improved transportation after war

• Telephone

• Suspension Bridge

• Transcontinental RR

• Plane

longest and highest mountains in western hemisphere

• Rockies

• Appalachians

• Sierra Madres

• Andes

connects Pacific to Atlantic for faster ship passage

• Suez Canal

• Panama Canal

• Mississippi River

• Hudson Bay

mexico, caribbean, central america, south america

• North America

• northern hemisphere

• southern hemisphere

• Latin America

Why is it call "Latin" America?

• same language base

• same music base

• same cuisine base

• same architectural base

most common type of government in western hemisphere

• christianity

• mixed market

• Republic/democracy

• English & Spanish

most common type of economy in western hemisphere

• christianity

• mixed market

• Republic/democracy

• English & Spanish