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, California
The Golden Gate Bridge
Independence Hall
Philadelphia, Pa.
Constitution was drafted
St. Louis Gateway Arch
At 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 midlatitudes.
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?