Twenty Questions Subject: Chapter 5 & 6

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1. A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern region of the United States? Sunbelt

2. The removal of whole forests when harvesting timber? Clear cutting

3. A flat landscape that stretches hundreds of miles East of the Rocky Mountains? Great plains

4. A series of canals, rivers and waterways that link the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean? Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Seaway

5. The place where the higher land of the piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic coastal plain? A fall line

6. What is the area between the Pacific ranges and the Rocky Mountains that often expresses the rain shadow effect? Columbian Plateau

7. Why did the 13 Colonies fight a war for independence from Britain? To escape Britain’s taxes and limits on colonists freedoms

8. It’s important to conserve fossil fuels because they are… Nonrenewable energy sources

9. What was the series of safe houses slaves escaped to before the Civil War? Underground Railroad

10. NAFTA has created environmental issues along the Rio Grande by doing what? Encouraging rapid industrial growth in the region

11. From what region did the largest group of foreign born residents living in the US today immigrate? Latin America

12. A place where marine resources can be harvested? Fishery

13. Harvesting aquatic life to the point where the species are depleted and the value of the area declines? Over fishing

14. An American colonist who remained committed to the British Government? Loyalist

15. To settle permanently in another country? Immigrate

16. What is believed to contribute directly to climate change and the rising of the Earth’s temperatures? Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

17. To the East of Canada’s central region of the plains stand the ancient, rounded… Appalachian mountains

18. Canada is rarely impacted by natural weather hazards because of its cold oceans and lack of? Extreme temperatures

19. What increased because of the arrival of a million people to Canada from Great Britain between 1815-44? French nationalism

The Kyoto Protocol because the government failed to meet its goals 20. Individual Canadian provinces have been addressing climate change since the national government pulled out of what and why? The Kyoto Protocol because the government failed to meet its goals