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The U.S. and Canada

The U.S. and Canada. Toronto, Ontario. Montreal: Confluence of the St. Lawrence/Ottawa Rivers. Ottawa: Canada’s Federal Capital located on the Ottawa River. Canadian Parliament (Legislature). Washington, D.C. The U.S. Federal Capital. The Senate and the House. Chicago, Illinois.

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The U.S. and Canada

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  1. The U.S. and Canada

  2. Toronto, Ontario

  3. Montreal:Confluence of the St. Lawrence/Ottawa Rivers

  4. Ottawa: Canada’s Federal Capitallocated on the Ottawa River.

  5. Canadian Parliament(Legislature)

  6. Washington, D.C.The U.S. Federal Capital.The Senate and the House

  7. Chicago, Illinois

  8. Chicago: on the shores of Lake Michigan

  9. The Chicago river runs through town

  10. New York: The Big Apple

  11. Wall St. the center of the Financial World.

  12. The Bulls and the Bears

  13. What’s happening?

  14. Traders in the Pit.

  15. Los Angeles, California

  16. Los Angeles: Harbor

  17. Los Angeles: Sunny Days at the beach.

  18. Houston,Texas: We built this city on oil and cattle $.

  19. San Francisco, CaliforniaThe Golden Gate Bridge

  20. Independence HallPhiladelphia, Pa.Constitution was drafted

  21. St. Louis Gateway ArchAt the confluence of the Mississippiand Missouri rivers.

  22. Wheat fields of the mid-west.Americas breadbasket.

  23. Influence of the Automobile:Drive-through service.

  24. Influence of the Automobile: Interstates.

  25. And more being built throughout the nation every year.

  26. The United States is a multi-cultural society

  27. Chinatown in San Francisco

  28. Chinatown: A Bank

  29. Fortune Cookie Factory

  30. French Quarter in New Orleans, La. Bourbon St.

  31. Export of U.S. Culture

  32. Chapter 5 Physical Geography of The United States & Canada

  33. Rocky Mountains • The other major mountain range in the U.S. & Canada. It extends 3,000 miles from Alaska to New Mexico.

  34. Appalachian Mountains • One of the major mountain ranges in North America. Extends 1,600 miles from Newfoundland, Canada to Alabama

  35. Canadian Shield • Covers 2 million miles in Canada around Hudson Bay

  36. Fall Line • The place where the higher land of the Piedmont drops to the Lower Atlantic Coastal Plain *****(Richmond, VA) is on the Fall Line

  37. The Great Lakes • Lake Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. • Found in the northern part of the U.S. and the southern part of Canada

  38. Continental Divide • The line of the highest points in the Rocky Mountains. Marks the difference between rivers that flow east and those that flow west.

  39. Mackenzie River • Canada’s longest river. Flows across the Northwest Territories.

  40. Great Plains • A treeless region in the central portion of the United States

  41. Permafrost • Permanently frozen ground

  42. Everglades • A huge swampland in Florida, that covers 4,000 square miles.

  43. Nomads • People who move from place to place.

  44. Beringia • A land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska.

  45. St. Lawrence Seaway • North America’s most important deep water shipping route.

  46. Locks • Sections of waterways with closed gates where water levels are raised and lowered.

  47. New England • A northern subregion of the United States (includes Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)

  48. Midwest (America’s Heartland) • The 12 states in the North-Central United States.

  49. South • The subregion that covers ¼ of the land area of the United States and contains more than 1/3 of it’s population

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