JEOPARDY: NORTH AMERICA UNIT

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Human Human 2

Other Other 2

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Physical 1 : 1 Question:

What large mountain chain is hundreds of millions of years old and have been worn down by weather and natural elements?

Answer:Appalachian

Mountains

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Physical 1 : 2 Question:

What mountain chain contains the Continental Divide?

Answer:Rocky Mountains

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Physical 1 : 3 Question:

What river flows across the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean?

Answer:Mackenzie River

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Physical 1 : 4 Question:

What is the land bridge over which early nomads traveled from Asia to North America?

Answer:Beringia

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Physical 1 : 5 Question:

The Ohio and Missouri rivers are tributaries of which of these?

Answer:Mississippi

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Physical 2 : 1 Question:

What is the name for the point at which the river flow eastward or westward?

Answer:Continental Divide

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Physical 2 : 2 Question:

What is the name for the region that is home to the Inuit people in Canada?

Answer:Nunavut

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Physical 2 : 3 Question:

This seaway connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer:St. Lawrence

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Physical 2 : 4 Question:

What challenges face the residents of the Atlantic Provinces?

Answer:rugged terrain and

harsh weather

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Physical 2 : 5 Question:

What major waterway borders states like Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Louisiana?

Answer:Mississippi River

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Human: 1 Question:

What is the name for a corporation that is involved in business worldwide?

Answer:multinational

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Human: 2 Question:

What impact does commuter traffic have on infrastructure?

Answer:a negative impact

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Human: 3 Question:

Americans who support immigrants assimilating believe what about have a wide variety of cultural identities?

Answer:that they result in

separation, not national unity

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Human : 4 Question:

During the 1800s, sectionalism within the rapidly growing US eventually led to what conflict?

Answer:Civil War

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Human : 5 Question:

A nation is said to have a __________ economy if manufacturing is no longer the country’s most important industry.

Answer:postindustrial

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human 2 : 1 Question:

Canada’s cultural “mosaic” came about because Canada encouraged immigrants to do what?

Answer:retain their cultural

identities

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human 2 : 2 Question:

What is the name for the condition that arises when development increases without planned growth?

Answer:urban sprawl

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human 2 : 3 Question:

What is the point of having locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway?

Answer:allow large vessels to

sail into/out of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean.

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human 2 : 4 Question:

Why are the Appalachian Mountains significantly more eroded than the Rockies?

Answer:They are much older.

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human 2 : 5 Question:

What economic system exists when the government exerts little control over businesses, resources, and technology operated for profit by private individuals?

Answer:free enterprise

system

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other : 1 Question:

What type of jobs would be found in the “service industry?”

Answer: jobs that provide

services, not goods, such as info processing, finance, medicine, and education.

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other : 2 Question:

Why did most of Canada’s urban and industrial development occur on the border of the US?

Answer:milder climate, fertile

soils, and the railway system

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other : 3 Question:

What term refers to the people of mixed French and native peoples descent?

Answer:Métis

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other : 4 Question:

Why are Quebec and Ontario known as the Core Provinces?

Answer:they comprise the

areas of greatest population and land

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other : 5 Question:

What was the name for the confederation between Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?

Answer:Dominion of Canada

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other 2: 1 Question:

Where can one find British Columbia?

Answer:Canada’s western

coast

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other 2: 2 Question:

What is the name for the title of Canada’s majority party leader?

Answer:Prime Minister

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other 2: 3 Question:

Who government is characterized by an appointed Senate and an elected House of Commons?

Answer:Canada’s

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other 2: 4 Question:

What is the name for the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta?

Answer:Prairie Provinces

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