Geography Unit 3 Test

What mountain range is on the west side of Canada and the US?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Laurentian Highlnds

• Rocky Moutains

• the Alps

The five of these act as a natural border between Canada and the US.

• Great Lakes

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Great Salt Lake

What Ocean is on the west side of North America?

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

• Southern Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

What are the major regions of the US?

• Northeast, South, Midwest, West

• South, North, East, West

• Southwest, North, West, Northwest

• NNE, SSE, EWE, SSW

A natural (not man-man) boundary separating precipitation which in this case includes rivers, rainfall, snowfall, etc that flows into two oceans. In other words this is like a barrier that prevents rivers, etc on one side from flowing into oceans and seas on the other side.

• Gulf of Mexico

• Continental Divide

• Sahara Desert

• Colorado River

Where is a tropical wet climate found?

• Desert

• High Latitudes

• Middle Latitudes

• low latitudes

Semiarid, Arid, Marine West Coast, Humid Continental, Humid

Subtropical can be found in these types of latitudes...

• Low

• Middle

• High

• Very low

A forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is an area of the Northern Hemisphere that lies just south of the Arctic Circle.

• forest

• rain forest

• taiga

• Great Plains

A vast high plateau of semiarid grassland. Their altitude at the base of the Rockies in the United States is between 5,000 and 6,000 feet (1,500 and 1,800 metres) above sea level; this decreases to 1,500 feet at their eastern boundary. The altitudes of the Canadian portion are lower, and near the Arctic Ocean the surface is only slightly above sea level.

• Dessert Desert Plains

• Great Plains

• Mediocre Plains

• Desert Plains

What city is this?

• Chicago

• Houston

• Washington D.C.

• New York