1. North America Test Review

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

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

4. Where in the world can the Inuit people be found?

5. In which state can you find a subarctic climate?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. Which landform runs through both the United States and Canada?

25. Which part of Texas is more densely populated?

26. What is an “empresario”?

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

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

29. What is one of Canada’s largest agricultural exports?

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

31. Where is the Columbia Plateau?