United States and Canada Physical Geography Chapter 6, Section 3 Resources and Land Uses

1. United States and Canada Physical Geography Chapter 6, Section 3 Resources and Land Uses

2. The land and soil found in America’s South and Midwest are best suited for farming.

3. Up through the early 20th Century, most American farms were family owned.

4. Water, the most important of all natural resources is needed for the obvious: to drink and to grow crops for food.

5. Water is also important for producing hydroelectricity

6. Water also plays an important part of the industrial process

7. Water plays an important role in transportation and shipping goods

8. Forests are in abundance in the Great Lakes, Northwest, Appalachians and the south. They produce lumber, wood pulp for paper and wood for furniture.

9. The United States produces and consumes more fossil fuels than any other country in the world

10. Less than 10% of Canada’s land is suitable for farming

11. Much of Canada’s mineral wealth is found in the Canadian Shield. Dig it!

12. The Prairie Provinces have large oil and natural gas deposits

13. Canada is a leading producer of timber products

14. Key Term Review alluvial soil agribusiness fossil fuels hydroelectricity

15. Fertile topsoil left by a river after a flood is known as alluvial soil

16. A large company that runs huge farms is known as agribusiness

17. Electric power produced by moving water is known as Hydroelectricity

18. A fuel formed over millions of years from animal and plant remains is known as fossil fuel