Ch.5 Sec.1

Question 1

What are the pacific ranges?

Answer 1

Sierra Nevada, cascade range, coastal range, and Alaska range

Question 2

How tall is mount McKinley?

Answer 2

20,030 ft. Highest land surface in NA(Alaska range)

Question 3

How long are the Rockies?

Answer 3

3,000 miles from NM to Canada(links US and Canada)

Question 4

How deep is the Grand Canyon?

Answer 4

6,000 feet

Question 5

What is the hottest place in the U.S. With temps of 134 degrees and 212 feet below sea level?

Answer 5

Death Valley(CA)

Question 6

Where do the Great Plains slope to?

Answer 6

Down to the MS river about 10ft per mile

Question 7

What is NA’s oldest mountain range and also second longest?

Answer 7

Appalachian mountains(1,500 miles)

Question 8

Why is Manhattan island important?

Answer 8

It’s important to the U.S. And the world because it’s a major trade center(near Hudson Bay)

Question 9

How was Hawaii formed?

Answer 9

Emerging volcanic mountain tops from pacific creating 8 major islands and 124 small islands

Question 10

What is the world’s largest island?

Answer 10

Greenland(territory of Denmark)

Question 11

What is the continental divide?

Answer 11

Rockies, the point where water flows W to the pacific but E to the MS river

Question 12

What is the MS river?

Answer 12

River that flows 2,350 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico(drains 1.2 M miles of land -> 31 U.S. States)

Question 13

What is the U.S. Fall line?

Answer 13

Marks a high point of land(Piedmont)that begins to lower reaching to the Atlantic coast(PH,Baltimore,WA DC) US and Canada

Question 14

What is the Canadian Shield?

Answer 14

Great Lakes-result of glaciers that carried out the lands

Question 15

What is Niagara Falls?

Answer 15

Important source of hydro electric power for the U.S. And Canada and also is a boundary

Question 16

Who is first in oil resources in the U.S.? Second?

Answer 16

Texas;Alaska Texas also is first in natural gas

Question 17

Where are most of Canada’s oil and natural gas?

Answer 17

Alberta

Question 18

What is the percentage of Canada’s capacity of potash(fertilizer)?

Answer 18

28%

Question 19

How do we overcome deforestation?

Answer 19

Plant new trees, protect other habitat locations, set aside national parks/forest

Question 20

What happened at Great Banks?

Answer 20

Fishing was banned in 1992 after 500 years of it being used for fishing

Question 21

What are the higher altitudes?

Answer 21

2/3s of Canada and Alaska -> long,cold winters and brief,mild summers

Question 22

What is Hawaii’s climate?

Answer 22

Tropical

Question 23

What is the northern climate?

Answer 23

2/3s if Canada averages a temp of 0 degrees in January -> some reach below -70 degrees in winters. Winds from Canada bring cold air to US

Question 24

What are western climates?

Answer 24

N CA, WA, OR-rains up to 100 inches per year(marine west coast) S CA(Mediterranean)

Question 25

What are desert climates?

Answer 25

Great salt lake desert, Mojave desert,Chihuahun,Death Valley

Question 26

What was the Dust Bowl?

Answer 26

The rough drought that happened in the U.S. In the 1930s caused lack of food and giant dust cloud storms. It was caused from poor farming from the farmers.

Question 27

How many square miles does US and Canada cover?

Answer 27

7 billion(12% of earth not including Hawaii or Alaska)