| A | B |
|---|
| Arizona | where major copper deposits are found |
| South | home to the largest percentage of the population in the U.S. |
| Spanish | what most bilingual people in the U.S. speak |
| earthquakes | Western cities strictly enforce building codes to limit their damage |
| Latin America and Asia | where most new immigrants to the U.S. now come from |
| Russia | the earliest settlers of North America came across a land bridge linking Alaska and this country |
| Dallas Fort Worth | the largest metropolitan area in the South |
| Corn Belt | located in the Midwest |
| rain shadow | why areas east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades are dry |
| north to south | the direction most major landforms in North America stretch |
| Continental Divide | North America's major river systems flow east or west of this |
| Alberta | where Canada's major oil-producing regions are located |
| ice cap | the only climate not found in the U.S. |
| climate patterns | these greatly influence plant and animal life |
| newsprint | provided by Canadian forests |
| salmon | main commercial fish on the Pacific coast |
| Southern colonies | their regional economies were based on cotton and tobacco |
| fertilizers | the use of these by farmers has caused excessive algae growth in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Northeast | most industrialized region of the U.S. |
| hot spot | on which the Hawaiian Islands are located |
