WorksheetsChapter 5 Vocabulary - United States and Canada
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
One of two mountain chains in the eastern United States and Canada, extending 1,600 miles Newfoundland south to Alabama.
a)
Andes Mountains
b)
Rocky Mountains
c)
Appalachian Mountains
d)
Himalayan Mountains
2.
A vast grassland of central North America that is largely treeless and ascends to 4,000 feet above sea level.
a)
The Great Plains
b)
The Eurasian Steppe
c)
The Salt Plains
d)
The Serengeti
3.
a northern part of the interior lowlands that is a rocky, flat region covering nearly two million square miles and encircling the Hudson Bay.
a)
capoeira
b)
caucusas
c)
Canadian sheild
d)
Chisholm trail
4.
a major mountain system of the United States and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico.
a)
The Andes
b)
The Rockies
c)
The Alps
d)
The Appalachians
5.
the line of the highest points in North America that marks the line of separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward.
a)
continentality
b)
continental drift
c)
continental divide
d)
continental breakfast
6.
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.
a)
Moss Lake
b)
Lake Texhoma
c)
Saint Lawrence seaway
d)
The Great Lakes
7.
Canada's longest river, which is part of a river system that flows across the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean.
a)
The Missouri River
b)
The Mississippi River
c)
The Nile River
d)
The Mackenzie River
8.
permanently frozen ground
a)
dirt
b)
permafrost
c)
permadirt
d)
permission
9.
Winds that blow from west to east.
a)
prevailing westerlies
b)
prevailing easterlies
c)
doldrums
d)
horse latitudes
10.
a large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles.
a)
Okeechobee
b)
Atchafayala
c)
Everglades
d)
Ponchetrain
11.
a person with no permanent home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
a)
nomad
b)
bum
c)
transient
d)
hitchhiker
12.
a land bridge thought to have connected what are now Siberia and Alaska.
a)
Golden Gate Bridge
b)
1892 Bridge
c)
Bering strait
d)
Beringia
13.
North America's most important deep water ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by the way of the St. Lawrence River.
a)
Erie Canal
b)
Panama Canal
c)
St. Lawrence seaway
d)
Rio Grande
14.
a section of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered, through which ships pass.
a)
canal
b)
lock
c)
compartment
d)
dam
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