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Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions. Subject: Chapter 33 & 34. Twenty Questions. 1. A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern region of the United States?. Sunbelt. 2. The removal of whole forests when harvesting timber?. Clear cutting.

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Twenty Questions

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  1. Twenty Questions Subject: Chapter 33 & 34

  2. Twenty Questions

  3. 1. A mild climate region in the southern and southwestern region of the United States? • Sunbelt

  4. 2. The removal of whole forests when harvesting timber? • Clear cutting

  5. 3. A flat landscape that stretches hundreds of miles East of the Rocky Mountains? • Great plains

  6. 4. A series of canals, rivers and waterways that link the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean? • Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Seaway

  7. 5. The place where the higher land of the piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic coastal plain? • A fall line

  8. 6. What is the area between the Pacific ranges and the Rocky Mountains that often expresses the rain shadow effect? • Columbian Plateau

  9. 7. Why did the 13 Colonies fight a war for independence from Britain? • To escape Britain’s taxes and limits on colonists freedoms

  10. 8. It important to conserve fossil fuels because they are… • Nonrenewable energy sources

  11. 9. What was the series of safehouses escape slavery before the Civil War? • Underground Railroad

  12. 10. NAFTA has created environmental issues along the Rio Grande by doing what? • Encouraging rapid industrial growth in the region

  13. 11. From what region did the largest group of foreign born residents living in the US today immigrate? • Latin America

  14. 12. A place where marine resources can be harvested? • Fishery

  15. 13. Harvesting aquatic life to the point where the species are depleted and the value of the area declines? • Over fishing

  16. 14. An American colonist who remained committed to the British Government? • Loyalist

  17. 15. To leave one’s own country to settle permanently in another? • Immigrate

  18. 16. Believed to contribute directly to climate change and the rising of the Earth’s temperatures? • Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

  19. 17. To the East of Canada’s central region of the plains stand the ancient, rounded… • Appalachian mountains

  20. 18. Canada is rarely impacted by natural weather hazards because of its cold oceans and lack of? • Extreme temperatures

  21. 19. The arrival of a million people to Canada from Great Britain between 1815-1844 caused an increase in what? • French nationalism

  22. 20. Individual Canadian provinces have been addressing climate change since the national government pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol after… • The government failed to meet its goals

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