Twenty Questions Subject Chapter 5 6 Twenty Questions

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? l Sunbelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was the series of safehouses escape slavery before the Civil War? l Underground Railroad

10. NAFTA has created environmental issues along the Rio Grande by doing what? l 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? l Latin America

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

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

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

15. To leave one’s own country to settle permanently in another? l Immigrate

16. Believed to contribute directly to climate change and the rising of the Earth’s temperatures? l Carbon Dioxide (CO 2)

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

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

19. The arrival of a million people to Canada from Great Britain between 1815 -1844 caused an increase in what? l French nationalism

20. Individual Canadian provinces have been addressing climate change since the national government pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol after… l The government failed to meet its goals