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Natural Resources
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Land
Water
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How the U.S. and Canada appear from outer space
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What is one large landmass?
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The landform that lies between the Rockies and
the Appalachians
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What is a huge plains area?
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A major landform found in both the U.S. and Canada
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What are the Rocky Mountains?
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Why the Prairie Provinces and the St. Lawrence
Lowlands are important to Canadas economy
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What is they are major agricultural regions?
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Few people live here because the land is too
rugged to live on
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What is Canadian Shield?
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They formed the Great Lakes
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What are glaciers?
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A major use of the rivers in the Quebec Province
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What is hydroelectricity?
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Why the Great Lakes are important to the U.S. and
Canada
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What is they are major shipping routes that
connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
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Silt left by rivers after a flood
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What is alluvial soil?
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The largest group of freshwater lakes in the world
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What are the Great Lakes?
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How Canadas climate is affected by its northern
latitude
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What is Canada is very cold?
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Permanently frozen subsoil of which the surfaces
thaws only during the Arctic summer
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What is permafrost?
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The dry side of a mountain that receives little
rain
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What is rain shadow?
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Size of the U.S. and Canada
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What is a factor that accounts for the great
variety of climates?
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Latitude, mountains, oceans
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What are factors that affect climate?
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The four types of vegetation or plant life in the
U.S. Canada
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What are tundra, grassland, desert scrub and
forest?
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A cold dry region in the Arctic that is covered
with snow for more than half the year
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What is the tundra?
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It receives little rainfall, is desert or
semiarid, has few plants and cannot support many
people (but sheep love grazing on it).
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What is desert scrub?
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A region of flat, or rolling land covered with
grasses
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What is a prairie?
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Uses today include growing corn, soybeans, wheat,
and raising cattle
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What are grasslands or prairies?
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How the huge plains area in Canada and the U.S.
affect the way people there live
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What is the rich soil makes good farmland?
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Produces more hydroelectricity than any other dam
in the U.S.
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What is the Grand Coulee dam?
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Largest oil reserves in North America
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Where is along the northern coast of Alaska?
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U.S.s major natural resources include soil,
water, timber, farmland and ________.
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What are minerals?
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Where much of Canadas mineral wealth is located
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What is the Canadian Shield?