Unit 2 Vocab Quiz

a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake

• tributary
• Canadian Shield
• Great Plains
• Suburbs

a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada

• Great Plains
• tributary
• Canadian Shield
• Province

a large section of a country that has its own administration, similar to a state or county

• Inuit

• Province

• Canadian Shield
• Great Plains

a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year

• Immigration

• tributary
• Permafrost

• Suburbs

a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine

• Sun Belt
• Fossil Fuels

• Arable

• Great Plains

the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

• Suburbs

• Cordillera

• Immigration

• Suburbs

the exposed portion of continental crust underlying the majority of North America, largest mass of exposed continental crust on Earth

• Canadian Shield
• Great Plains
• Suburbs
• Permafrost

an outlying district of a city

• Urban

• tributary
• Suburbs

• Province

a system or group of parallel mountain ranges together with the intervening plateaus and other features

• Cordillera
• tributary
• Canadian Shield
• Suburbs

a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska

• Inuit
• Canadian Shield
• Province

• Suburbs