Ch. 5 U.S. Geography Test

The point in the eastern or western United States that determines which direction local rivers will flow is called the

• River Fork
• Continental Divide
• Water Divide
• Flow Direction Point

The point of origin for a river is called the

• tributary
• headwaters

• delta
• mouth

The industrial region in the Northwest and Great Lakes regions is known as the

• Steel Valley
• Manufacturing Belt

• Corn Belt
• Sun Belt

A modern religious philosophy embraced by many teenagers and young adults in America is known as

• Religious but Not Spiritual
• Traditional Christianity
• moralistic therapeutic deism

• Atheism

Stress on water supplies due to insufficient rainfall results from

• Increased water demand
• Water conservation efforts
• drought

• Excessive rainfall

Write the letter of the best answer beside the corresponding description.

• Rocky Mountains

• Forms the Western Continental Divide

• Sunbelt

• Underground layer of water-bearing rock or sediment

• Pacific Mountain

  Ranges

• Industrial region in the South and Southwest

• aquifer

• Forms the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains

• Piedmont

• Region that includes the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains

Write the letter of the best answer beside the corresponding description.

• Great Basin

• Orthodox Protestants

• evangelicals

• Region between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast

• Great Plains

• Region marked on its western boundary by the Rocky Mountains

What governmental principle divides the national government into the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?

• Separation of powers
• Checks and balances
• Federalism
• Judicial review

What core values forge a common culture and bind a people together?

• Greed, jealousy, anger, isolation
• Indifference, hostility, competition, division
• Fear, mistrust, apathy, exclusion
• freedom, equality, individualism, and growth

What develops when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide combine with water vapor that then falls to the earth as rain?

• Nitrogen gas
• Acid rain
• Clean water
• Ozone layer depletion