US and Canada Vocab

The legal language used for all the business of the country

• Democracy

• Official language

• Standard of living

• Cash crops

Flat and near the ocean

• Territory

• Permafrost

• Mountain chain

• Coastal plain

A long group of mountains, the landform with high elevation, often with steep rocky sides

• Mountain chain

• Coastal plain

• Suburbs

• Unguarded border

The kind of weather a place usually heads over a period of time

• Permafrost

• Coastal plain

• Climate

• Population density

A person who moves into a country form another country

• Unguarded border

• Population density

• Imports

• Immigrants

Means people can pray any way and any place they choose

• Freedom of religion

• Democracy

• Diversity

• Urban

People vote for their leaders in free elections

• Developed nations

• Democracy

• Freedom of religion

• Prime minister

The city and the suburbs, not in the countryside

• Provinces

• Rural

• Industrial nation

• Urban

Neighborhood close to a city

• Territory

• Suburbs

• Lowlands

• Canal

A nation that has factories that use modern technology to make things

• Urban

• Industrial nation

• British Commonwealth