Chapter 5 Vocabulary (US and Canada)

What is the major mountain chain in the eastern United States and Canada?

• Rocky Mountains

• St. Lawrence Seaway

• prevailing westerlies

• Appalachian Mountains

Who is a person who moves from place to place?

• Everglades

• lock

• permafrost

• nomad

What is permanently frozen ground called?

• Great Plains

• Everglades

• permafrost

• Mackenzie River

Definition: land bridge that once connected what are now Siberia and Alaska.

• A) Everglades

• B) Beringia

• C) Great Plains

• D) Great Lakes

Definition: five large lakes found in the central United States and Canada.

• A) Everglades

• B) Beringia

• C) Great Plains

• D) Great Lakes

Definition: winds that blow from west to east in the middle latitudes.

• A) prevailing westerlies

• B) Great Lakes

• C) Appalachian Mountains

• D) Canadian Shield

What is the line of the highest points in the Rockies that marks the separation between rivers flowing to the east and to the west?

• Continental Divide

• Great Lakes

• prevailing westerlies

• St. Lawrence Seaway

What is the rocky, flat area that surrounds Hudson Bay?

• Great Lakes

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

What is the section of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered?

• Beringia

• nomad

• lock

• Rocky Mountains

What is the mountain chain in the western United States and Canada?

• Rocky Mountains

• Great Plains

• Canadian Shield

• Appalachian Mountains