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

Chicago: on the shores of Lake Michigan

The Chicago river runs through town

New York: The Big Apple

Wall St. the center of the Financial World.

The Bulls and the Bears

What’s happening?

Traders in the Pit.

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles: Harbor

Los Angeles: Sunny Days at the beach.

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

San Francisco, CaliforniaThe Golden Gate Bridge

Independence HallPhiladelphia, Pa.

Constitution was drafted

St. Louis Gateway ArchAt the confluence of the Mississippi

and Missouri rivers.

Wheat fields of the mid-west.Americas breadbasket.

Influence of the Automobile:Drive-through service.

Influence of the Automobile: Interstates.

And more being built throughout the nation every year.

The United States is a multi-cultural society

Chinatown in San Francisco

Chinatown: A Bank

Fortune Cookie Factory

French Quarter in New Orleans, La.

Bourbon St.

Export of U.S. Culture

Chapter 5

Physical Geography of The United States & Canada

• Rocky Mountains– The other major mountain range in the U.S. &

Canada. It extends 3,000 miles from Alaska to New Mexico.

• Appalachian Mountains– One of the major mountain ranges in North

America. Extends 1,600 miles from Newfoundland, Canada to Alabama

• Canadian Shield– Covers 2 million miles in Canada around

Hudson Bay

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Mackenzie River– Canada’s longest river. Flows across the

Northwest Territories.

• Great Plains– A treeless region in the central portion of the

United States

• Permafrost– Permanently frozen ground

• Everglades– A huge swampland in Florida, that covers

4,000 square miles.

• Nomads– People who move from place to place.

• Beringia– A land bridge that once connected Siberia and

Alaska.

• St. Lawrence Seaway– North America’s most important deep water

shipping route.

• Locks– Sections of waterways with closed gates

where water levels are raised and lowered.

• New England– A northern subregion of the United States

(includes Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)

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

States.

• South– The subregion that covers ¼ of the land area

of the United States and contains more than 1/3 of it’s population

• The West– A region of the U.S. that stretches from the

Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean.

Covers about ½ of the U.S. landmass and about 1/5 of it’s population.

• Provinces– Are the political units in Canada. Like States

in the U.S.

• Atlantic Provinces– The four provinces in Eastern Canada (Prince

Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.)

• Core Provinces– Quebec and Ontario

• Often called Canada’s Heartland—60% of Canadians live here. The center of Canadian Politics. Ontario is the center of English Canadian life and Quebec is the center of French Candian Life.

• Prairie Provinces– Located to the West of Ontario and Quebec

(Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). The center of Canadian agriculture.

• The Pacific Province and Territories– (British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Northwest

Territories, & Nunavut)

• British Columbia– Canada’s westernmost province, contains

Vancouver (Canada’s largest port).

• Nunavut– Formed in 1999 this is the home to much of

Canada’s Inuit population.

• Prevailing Westerlies– Winds that blow from West to East in the mid-

latitudes.

Chapter 6

Cultural Geography of the United States & Canada

• Columbian Exchange– The trade network that involved the exchange

of goods between North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia

• Louisiana Purchase– (1803) when the U.S. government purchased

the area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains from France. This doubled the size of the United States.

• Frontier– The free-open land that was available for

settlement in the late 1800’s.

• Migration– Movement (of people within the U.S.)

• Urbanization– The movement of people from rural areas to

cities.

• Suburbs– The communities directly outside of a city.

• Metropolitan Area– The city and the suburbs around it.

• Urban Sprawl– When cities spread outward as more and

more suburbs are built.

• Smart Growth– The efficient use and conservation of land and

other resources.

• Sustainable Communities– Communities where residents live and work in

the same area.

• Megalopolis– An area where multiple large cities grow

together.

• Representative Democracy– The people rule through elected

representatives.

• Dominion of Canada– (1867) was created by the British North

America Act. United Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) in a confederation.

• Confederation– A political Union made up of loosely

connected provinces.

• Parliamentary Government– A political system in which the Legislative and

Executive branches are combined in a legislature called Parliament.

• Prime Minister– The head of government in Canada (sort of

like our President)

• First Nations– Canada’s Native American Peoples.

• Metis– People of mixed French and Native heritage.

• Reserves– Public land set aside for the Native Peoples.

Chapter 7

The Region Today

• NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement)– An agreement between the United States,

Canada, and Mexico which has eliminated trade barriers between the countries

• Export– The goods sold to another country.

• Free Enterprise– Private individuals own most of the resources,

technology, and businesses and operate with few government restrictions

• Service Industry– Any kind of economic activity that produces a

service rather than a product.

• Postindustrial Economy– An economy where manufacturing no longer

plays a major role.

• Multinationals– American companies that participate in

business worldwide.

• The Rust Belt– The area east of The Great Lakes where

businesses have moved and left behind rusting factories and steel mills

• The Wheat Belt– The Prairie Provinces of Canada and the

Great Plains of the U.S. where wheat is grown.

• Terrorism– The threat or use of violence against

individuals (or property) with the purpose of causing fear in an effort to reach a specific goal.

• Global Network– A worldwide interconnected group.

• Coalition – An alliance

• Biological Weapons– Bacteria or viruses that can be used to kill (or

harm) people, animals, or plants.

THE END

Bell Work 9/20

• Using your textbook (pg 159), in a short paragraph (at least 3 sentences) discuss health care in Canada.

Bell Work 9/28

• Write a brief history of your family. Include where your ancestors immigrated from, and (if you know) why.

Bell Work 9/24

• How has Terrorism effected your life?