This massive mountain range dominates the western United States and is one of North America's most iconic landforms.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This older, lower mountain range stretches along the eastern United States from Maine down into the Southeast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These five large freshwater lakes sit along the US-Canadian border and include Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
What are the Great Lakes?
This river forms the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This icy, rocky plateau covers roughly half of Canada and was formed by receding glaciers that left behind mostly rock and thin soil.
What is the Canadian Shield?
The Poconos, Catskills, and Adirondacks are all mountain ranges found in this US region.
What is the Northeast?
The Great Salt Lake, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Great Basin are all found in this US region.
What is the West?
The densely populated urban corridor stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. is known by this term.
What is the Megalopolis?
This region of the United States is known as the "Breadbasket of North America" for its fertile soil and production of corn, wheat, and dairy.
What is the Midwest (or Great Plains)?
This subregion of Appalachia and the mid-Atlantic is seeing population decline as the country moves away from coal.
What is Appalachia?
These two mountain ranges (the Occidental and the Oriental) run down the west and east coasts of Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre?
This natural sinkhole, formed by the collapse of a cave roof exposing groundwater below, is commonly found in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
What is a cenote?
Mexico's Central Plateau, sitting at about 6,000 feet above sea level with mild temperatures, is known by this name.
What is the Altiplano?
This free trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada replaced NAFTA in 2020.
What is the USMCA?
These factories in Mexico assemble products using imported materials and export the finished goods to the United States.
What are maquiladoras?
Canada is the world's second-largest country by this measure.
What is land area (or total area)?
This natural wonder sits on the US-Canadian border near the Great Lakes and draws millions of tourists each year.
What is Niagara Falls?
Canada's prairie region is known by this nickname because of its role as a major agricultural producer.
What is the "Breadbasket of Canada"?
This French-speaking province narrowly voted down independence from Canada in a 1995 referendum.
What is Quebec?
Canada is still part of a Commonwealth led by this country.
What is Great Britain (the United Kingdom)?
This ancient civilization, centered in Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City), flourished from the 1200s until 1521.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This civilization, known for advanced astronomy, mathematics, and pyramid architecture, peaked from 250–900 CE in Mexico and Central America.
Who are the Maya?
This Native American confederacy of six nations in the northeastern US and Canada was known for its democratic Grand Council and the "Three Sisters" farming.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)?
These indigenous people of northern Canada are nomadic hunter-gatherers known for building igloos and relying on fishing, seals, and caribou.
Who are the Inuit?
European explorers first reached North America around 1492, but Norse explorers had actually reached this Canadian island approximately 500 years earlier.
What is Newfoundland?
The Gulf of Mexico provides this valuable natural resource to both the United States and Mexico.
What is oil?
This environmental disaster began on April 20, 2010, when a blowout on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico caused an explosion and massive spill.
What is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
Free trade agreements like NAFTA can lower prices for consumers by eliminating these taxes on imported goods.
What are tariffs?
Most of Canada's fossil fuel industries are concentrated in this part of the country.
What is the west (and north)?
In what decade did the percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force reach its lowest point before rising again?
What is the 1970s?