History Test #3 Review

The longest river in the US.

Missouri

The type of area where 82 percent of Americans live.

Urban areas (US Population)

The name of what forms the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains?

Piedmont

The area between the Rocky Mountains and the mountains along the Pacific Coast.

Great Basin

Describe the Eastern Continental Divide. Include the mountains and how water flows.

The Appalachian mountains. The water flowing east goes into the Atlantic Ocean. The water flowing west goes into either the Great Lakes or the Gulf of Mexico.

Where do most Canadians live?

In dense urban areas

The province where French is predominantly spoken.

Quebec

What does Canada claim about the Arctic Occean?

It is part of their territorial waters

Canadian Shield

The area of hard rock and poor soil that surrounds the Hudson Bay.

The type of soil in Canada where oil will be found.

Bitumen soil

What ocean does the water flow on the western side of the Western Continental Divide?

Pacific

Aquifer

An underground layer of water-bearing rock or sediment from which groundwater can be extracted.

Headwaters

The source of a river.

The point beyond which trees cannot grow.

Timberline

What may happen to the Arctic if it continues to melt?

It could become a location of international conflict

The largest religious group in Canada (not the largest growing group).

Roman Catholics

Canadian Head of State

The British Monarch.

What kind of economy does Canada have?

A mixed economy.

Main purpose of the residential schools in Canada

To help the First Nation children assimilate.

How many Canadians today are foreign born?

A fifth

The type of natural disaster to which the Atlantic and Gulf Coast are susceptible.

Hurricanes

Headquarters for Mormons

Salt Lake City, Utah.

What kind of economy does the US have?

Free enterprise capitalism

What are the contrasting descriptive words often used to describe the US and Canada?

US - melting pot

Canada - mosaic

4 Core Values of the US

Freedom, equality, individualism, growth.

National capital of Canada

Ottawa

Political divisions of Canada

provinces

The point beyond which trees cannot grow

timberline

Who runs the executive branch of the Canadian government

The prime minister

French speaking citizens of Canada

Quebecois

The native peoples of Canada

The First Nations

The cod industry disappeared because of…

Overfishing

Though it is one of the smallest regions, over 50 percent of Canadians live here

The Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Lowlands

These mountains stretch from Alaska to the southern tip of South America

The Western Codillera

This region contains one if Earth’s great archipelagos

The Arctic

This includes parts of Mantinoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territory.

The interior plains

This largest region is a solid mass of hard rock that makes up nearly half of Canada’s land surface

The Canadian Shield

Possible with less ice in the arctic

Shipping

Trait which Canadians are proud of possesing

Tolerance

Reason for Canada’s population growth

Immigration

The controversial practice of the First Nations and commercial companies

Seal hunting

The exploitation of bitumen soils in Alberta

Oil sands mining

What religious group has seen the largest numerical growth in Canada?

The “nons”, people who do not belong to any particular religion

What is multiculturalism? Why did Canada make it an official policy?

Canadians value the idea that they are multicultural. They use the term cultural “mosaic”, which means the varied peoples who settled Canada have retained the distinct and colorful attributes of their diverse cultures. This is admirable when those attributes align with the Bible. This policy was imperative early on in holding a nation of two European peoples together.