Essential Vocabulary:
• Appalachian Mountains
• Atlantic Coastal Plain
• Gulf Coastal Plain
• Great Plains
• Interior Plains
• Cape Cod
• Shenandoah Valley
• Rocky Mountains
• Cascade Mountains
• Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Great Basin
• Death Valley
• Piedmont
• Colombia Plateau
• Central Valley
• Hudson Bay Lowlands
• Canadian Shield
• Baffin Islands
• Vancouver Islands
• Continental Divide
• Great Lakes (Michigan, Superior, Huron, Ontario, & Erie)
• St. Lawrence Seaway
Mackenzie River
Great Bear Lake
Great Slave Lake
Hudson Bay
• Hudson River
• Mississippi River
• Colorado River
• Missouri River
• Ohio River
• Snake River
• Rio Grande
• San Francisco Bay
• Gulf of Mexico
• Everglades
• Okeefenokee Swamp
• Chattahoochee River
• Port Cities: Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington D.C., Savannah, Miami, Tampa, New
Orleans, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Seattle, Anchorage, Vancouver, Anchorage
• Great Lakes Cities: Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth,
Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Buffalo
• Other cities: Ottawa, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Fairbanks,
Dallas, Albuquerque, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Nashville,
Memphis, Quebec City, St. Louis, Montreal
• Inuits
• Pacific NW Native Americans
• SW Native Americans
• Plains Native Americans
• Eastland Native Americans
• Permafrost
• Free Enterprise
• Market Economy
• “Boswash”
• Megalopolis
Suburbs
• Urban Sprawl
• US States: all 50
• US Territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands,
American Samoa
• Provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova
Scotia, Newfoundland (Labrador)
• Canadian Territories: Yukon, Northwest, Nunavut
• Parliament
• Prime Minister
• Governor General
• Provincial Courts
• Timberline
• Highland Climate
• Headwaters
• Cash Crop
Service Industries
• NAFTA
• Truck Farms
• Free Enterprise – “Laissez-Faire”
• Over-fishing
• Deforestation
• Reforestation
• Acid Rain