North America Test Review

• Which industry links Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Silicon Valley, California?

• How does the Gulf Stream affect the climate of the east coast of Canada and the United States of America?

• Where in the world can the Inuit people be found?

• In which state can you find a subarctic climate?

• Nonrenewable energy resources need to be conserved. What are some nonrenewable resources?

• Where in the United States can one find a great diversity of vegetation and wildlife?

• Many people are concerned this will happen if we continue to extract fossil fuels like coal and oil from Alberta’s tar sands.

• These people were once called Eskimos and live in the Canadian Arctic.

• Which mixed ancestry do the people called the “Metis” claim?

• Which natural resource do Alaska and Texas have more than any other states?

• How did the Underground Railroad help enslaved Africans escape from southern states to the north?

• Which types of industries would be included in a postindustrial economy?

• Since the 1950s America’s economy has drastically changed. Which industry have we moved away from towards the service sector?

• What is the name given to the core of rock anchoring North America which is centered on the Hudson Bay and James Bay?

• How did the world react to America’s economic downturn in 2008?

• What do you call cars which use fuel based on corn and other organic resources?

• Why did the individual Canadian provinces address climate change on their own after the national government pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol?

• What is the relative location of the region of the U.S. known as “The Great Plains”?

• For many years Canada was a “Dominion”; describe a dominion.

• Which part of Texas has close cultural ties with New Mexico, California, and Arizona?

• How have the blending of the Spanish-Mexican ranching heritage and European American livestock practices made themselves evident in Texas’s cultural tradion?

• Which part of the country have businesses from the manufacturing belt been moving to since the 1960s?

• Which landform runs through both the United States and Canada?

• Which part of Texas is more densely populated?

• What is an “empresario”?

• What is effect has industry had on Canada’s Boreal Forest?

• Which mountain chain stretches over 3,000 miles from Alaska through Canada to New Mexico?

• What is one of Canada’s largest agricultural exports?

• The wave of British immigrants to Canada from 1815 to 1844 caused many people in Quebec to react with increased ___________.

• Where is the Columbia Plateau?