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North America - Land and Resources – Video Quiz
1. Which of the following landform regions lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coastal Region?
(a) the Midwest Lowlands
(b) the Gulf Coast Plains
(c) the Great Plains
(d) the Intermountain Basins, Ranges, and Plateaus
2. Which of the following landform regions has the largest part of its land area in productive agriculture?
(a) the Midwest Lowlands
(b) the Rocky Mountains
(c) the Canadian Shield
(d) the Appalachian Mountain System
3. Which of the following resources are found in the United States and Canada?
(a) coal
(b) oil
(c) iron ore
(d) all of the above
4. Which of the following landform regions becomes higher and drier toward the west?
(a) the Appalachian Mountain System
(b) the Great Plains
(c) the Pacific Coastal Region
(d) the Canadian Shield
5. Which of the following bodies of water lie in glacially deepened depressions between the United States and
Canada?
(a) the Great Lakes
(b) the Great Salt Lakes
(c) the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers
(d) the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
6. Where did North America’s first major megalopolis develop?
(a) Along the Pacific Coast
(b) Along the Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain
(c) Around the many ports that line the shores of Hudson Bay
(d) Along the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico
7. Which of the following landform regions wraps around Hudson Bay?
(a) the Midwest Lowlands
(b) the Canadian Shield
(c) the Pacific Coastal Region
(d) the Atlantic Coastal Plain
8. The natural vegetation of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains was
(a) forest
(b) grassland
(c) desert
(d) tundra
9. Which of the following landform regions has extensive areas with a dry climate and desert vegetation?
(a) the Great Plains
(b) the Canadian Shield
(c) the Rocky Mountain System
(d) the Basins, Ranges, and Plateaus
10. The old eastern mountains of the United States and Canada are the:
(a) Rocky Mountains
(b) Appalachians
[c] Cascades
(d) Sierra Nevada