Exam 2: North America

Prior to 2009, the U.S.-Mexico border had about 10 times more border guards than the U.S.-Canada border.

The Colorado River seems to be an almost limitless source of water for the Southwest and will enable Los Angeles to grow much larger.

The 5 percent of the world's population that lives in North America produces what share of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere?

The extension of ________________________ across the North American continent in the nineteenth century facilitated the transportation of manufactured goods to the West and raw materials to the East.

Name a Native American group that was forced to march from their homelands in the southeastern United States to the dry, flat plains of Oklahoma.

The Great Lakes are depressions left by glacial scouring.

The Rocky Mountains are much older than the Appalachian Mountains.

Assume you were born in 1955. Geographers would classify you as:

Which organization claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks on the United States?

The interior of North America is cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than the coastal areas.

In prehistoric times, Eurasians came to North America by way of _____________.

The United States depends on Canada for more than 50 percent of its imported goods.

The Canadian health care system covers:

Roughly ___ percent of U.S. residents use the Internet regularly.

Huge heaps of mining waste are called:

Of all the greenhouse emissions produced worldwide, North America accounts for approximately ____________.

Reservations now cover _____ percent of Canada.

Old industrial sites that once held factories or rail yards are known as ___________________.

Globalization has resulted in large-scale offshore ______________ of information technology (IT) jobs

Despite international support of U.S. forces, the war in Afghanistan proved difficult to resolve.