Posted: September 13th, 2017

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CANADA and UNITED STATES SELECT ‘n ANSWER QUESTION SETS SESSION

Hello: Your Select ‘n Answer session for Anglo America follows →

[Please answer at least ten (10) sets of questions. Several of the questions include more
than one question to be answered. Note — Only your answers to your first ten (10) answer
sets will be scored.] Also, please identify the number of each question set that you are answering.

1. Give the world rank of both Canada and the United States in terms of territorial size.

Compare the difference between a country’s land area, and a country’s total area.

2. Give the world rank of both Canada and the United States in terms of population.

What are the current population estimates for both Canada and the United States?

3. What is the type of government structure in Canada? Define the term Dominion .

4. What is the type of governmental structure in the United States? Define the term state .

5. What are the northern, eastern, southern, and western boundaries of North America?

What land area is closest to the North Pole?

6. Compare the difference between North America and Anglo America.

What is the southern boundary of Anglo America?

7. Name the two territories in this realm that are not part of either Canada or the United States.

8. Name at least seven (7) of the flatland regions within Anglo America.

9. Name at least six (6) mountain ranges in the western part of Anglo America. In what states, provinces, or territories are each of these mountain ranges located?

Name the two (2) main plateaus and one (1) basin in the western United States.

10. Identify the major range of highlands in the eastern United States.

Identify the two (2) main plateaus in the eastern United States.

Identify the one (1) plateau in the south central part of the United States.

11. What are the highlands in Massachusetts?

What are the highlands in New Hampshire?

What are the two (2) main highlands in New York?

What is the range of highlands along the North Carolina and Tennessee border?

12. What are the two (2) main highlands in Pennsylvania?

What are the highlands in Vermont?

What are the main highlands in Virginia?

13. Identify the five (5) Great Lakes? Which one of the Great Lakes is the deepest?

Rank the Great Lakes from highest to lowest surface water elevation.

What river is the Great Lakes main outlet to the sea?

What state has a shoreline on four (4) of the five (5) Great Lakes?

14. Identify the largest river in North America.

Name the four (4) prinicipal tributaries of this river?

15. What three (3) rivers form the Missouri River?

In what state does the Missouri River begin?

What river is the main tributary of the Missouri River?

16. What two (2) rivers form the Ohio River?

In what state does the Ohio River begin?

What are the two (2) main tributaries of the Ohio River?

17. What are the two (2) largest rivers in the western United States?

What is (are) the primary use(s) of these two rivers?

What is the principal river in Alaska?

Which large Canadian river flows into the Arctic Ocean?

18. What state is virtually a peninsula?

What state, of the 48 states, is two (2) peninsulas?

What peninsula contains one (1) state and portions of two (2) other states?

19. What bay is the center of the Canadian Shield?

What bay adjoins this larger bay?

What bay is along the northwestern shore of Lake Michigan?

What bay is along the northeastern shore of Lake Huron?

20. What strait separates Lake Huron and Lake Michigan?

What provides ships water access between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?

What river links Lake Huron and Lake Superior?

What two (2) rivers and one (1) lake link Lake Erie and Lake Huron?

21. How many air mass source regions influence the weather patterns in the

United States? Name each of these air mass source regions.

What weather results from these air masses?

What climate sub-type is found in central Illinois?

22. List at least four (4) major grasslands in Anglo America.

List at least four (4) major areas in Anglo America that contain extensive

needleleaf forests. What part of Anglo America has extensive deserts?

23. Identify the meridian that most geographers agree separates Arid America

from Humid America. The state of Illinois is located in which of these two zones?

Also, identify the meridian that most geographers agree separates acidic soils

from alkaline soils. What soil type is typically found in central Illinois?

24. Name the four (4) major coal fields in Anglo America.

Which one of these major coal fields is currently the most productive?

Estimate the number of years of coal reserves there are in the United States.

In rank order, list the four (4) types of coal (from highest quality to lowest quality).

25. Name at least six (6) major oil fields in Anglo America.

Which one of these major oil fields is currently the most productive?

What are tar sands? Where, in Anglo America, is this resource primarily located?

Given the amount of oil currently consumed in the United States, what percent is produced at home?

26. What major minerals are extracted from the Canadian Shield?

What major minerals are extracted from the Appalachian Highlands?

What major minerals are extracted from the Western Mountains?

Name the major iron deposit found in northeastern Minnesota.

How is the iron ore usually transported from Minnesota?

What city or region is the center of the steel industry in Anglo America?

27. What type of society do most sociologists call Canada and the United States?

List the three (3) culture hearths of the eastern United States.

28. What European people initially settled the eastern seaboard of the United States?

Name the fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States.

Name the first two (2) most numerous ethnic minorities in the United States.

29. List and discuss the seven (7) values and beliefs of the American Nativist Culture.

30. Define the term Francophone .

Compare the standard language for government, commerce, and education in the

United States with Canada’s.

What European people initially settled Canada?

31. What is the religious preference of most people in the United States?

What is the religious preference of most people in Canada?

What is the fastest growing religion in Anglo America?

Define the term Bible Belt.

In what part(s) of the United States do most of those of Jewish faith reside?

32. What main agricultural commodities do the United States lead the world?

What is the main agricultural commodity grown in Canada?

Where is wheat primarily grown in the United States?

Where is corn primarily grown in the United States?

Where are soybeans primarily grown in the United States?

33. Name the three (3) leading areas in which beef cattle are raised.

In rank order, name the three (3) leading dairy producing states.

Name the three (3) leading states in which fruits and vegetables are grown.

Outline the main changes in agricultural production in the U.S. Cotton Belt?

34. Identify the four (4) corners of the American Manufacturing Belt.

Is there a fifth corner to this belt? If so, what city is identified as the fifth corner?

35. How many major urban-industrial districts are located in Anglo America?

Give three (3) factors that have caused the decline of traditional industry in

the American Manufacturing Belt.

What are the two (2) main goals of the revitalization of American industry?

36. What has been the fundamental change in the character of the use of technology in

the Post-Industrial Society?

What is the basic product in the new Post-Industrial Society?

What are the leading metropolitan areas for internet use and service?

Name the five (5) leading growth industries in the evolving Post-Industrial Society.

37. List at least six (6) conditions that are likely to attract a high-tech company to a locality.

38. Highlight the advantages and limitations to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Identify the trade agreement that is under consideration to further broaden NAFTA.

39. List and discuss each of Borchert’s Five (5) Epochs of Metropolitan Evolution.

40. List and discuss each of Adam’s Four (4) Era’s of Intraurban Structural Evolution.

41. Discuss the evolution of modern Canada.

Identify the original four (4) provinces of Canada.

Identify the most populous Canadian province.

Name the Canadian province that has the largest land area.

42. List and discuss each of Yeates’ Three (3) Era’s of Canadian Experience.

Where is the core area of today s Canada located?

43. List the three (3) maritime provinces of Canada.

List the three (3) prairie provinces of Canada.

Name the ‘Pacific’ province of Canada.

44. Name the ‘Upper Canadian’ Province of Canada.

Name the ‘Lower Canadian’ Province of Canada.

Who are the Quebecois? What is the main goal of the Quebecois?

45. Which Canadian province is divided into two (2) parts?

Name the two divisions of this province.

What is the economic importance of this province to Canada?

46. Name the two (2) territories that are part of Canada.

Name the Inuit Amerindian homeland that is part of Canada.

47. Discuss the importance of the North American Core to Anglo America.