Chapter 5 Geography Flashcards

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Mt. McKinley

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Highest point in North America.

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Appalachian Mountains

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A system of mountains in eastern North America

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Tributaries

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A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.

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Mississippi River

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the largest river system in North America.

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Great Lakes

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A collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada–United States border which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway.

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Fossil Fuels

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Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.

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Fisheries

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an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery

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Aquaculture

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Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants

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Everglades

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are a natural region of subtropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed.

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Death Valley

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a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in North America.

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Great Plains

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Are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

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Newfoundland

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the former name of Newfoundland and Labrador, a Canadian province in the eastern part of Canada

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Yukon Territory

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The territory was created from the rump of the Hudson's Bay Company's North-Western Territory in 1898 as "the Yukon"