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A. Seeing Patterns Use the chart below help you understand the patterns of settlement and agriculture in the United States and Canada.

Settlement and Agriculture in the United States and Canada

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B. Identifying and Solving Problems Use the chart below to take notes on how people in the United States and Canada have both created and solved problems through their interactions with the environment. 1. building cities: Montreal

2. building cities: Los Angeles

3. overcoming distances: trails and inland waterways

4. overcoming distances: transcontinental railroads

5. overcoming distances: national highway systems

C. Map and Graph Skills Use the graphic on page 129 in your textbook to answer the following questions. 1. Analyzing Data What is the difference between the level of Lake Superior and that of the St. Lawrence River? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Drawing Conclusions What states and provinces border the St. Lawrence Seaway? _____________________________________________________________________________________

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MAP AND GRAPH SKILLS

Reading a Highway Map

In the early-to-mid-19th century, Canadians found it difficult to travel across the vast plains and rugged mountains of their country. Railroads were scant and the few roads were often impassable. One weary traveler complained: "Here [Canada] we have comparatively few or no good roads, we have often to wade through mud and swamps for many miles together, and except in the sleighing season, find it almost impossible to go any distance." Gradually, road travel improved and, as a result, highway maps became more plentiful and detailed.

THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS This highway map of Alberta, Canada, shows two TransCanadian highways, other highways, paved roads, and unpaved roads. It also shows many other surface features, including rivers, lakes, mountain peaks, parks, and campsites.

Highway Map of Alberta, Canada

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Using Map Skills

Using the legend and map on the opposite page, answer the following questions. 1. Highway maps not only show highways but also indicate the type of highway. What kind of highway is Highway 2 connecting Edmonton and Calgary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Is the road paved or unpaved from Medicine Hat to Calgary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Is Edmonton a capital city? If so, is it a capital of a province or of a country? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Is Highway 16 considered to be scenic? How can you tell? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Which town on the map in Alberta is closest to the United States? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What national park is located closest to Calgary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Highway maps often show the boundaries of national parks, state/provincial parks, and recreation areas. Find Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve. About how many miles long is this reserve? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Reteaching Activity

Reading Comprehension Find the missing word or phrase that best completes each of the sentences below. Write your answers in the blank.

1. The first inhabitants of what is now the United States and Canada were ____________________, people who move from place to place.

2. Many early settlements became permanent after ____________________ replaced hunting and gathering as the primary method of food production about 3,000 years ago.

3. When people began to cultivate crops, they changed the landscape by ____________________ the rich soil of river valleys and flood plains with hoes of wood, stone, and bone.

4. The environment was changed extensively when cities were built. For example, to make Montreal's severe winter more livable, large areas were developed ____________________, including a network of shops and restaurants.

5. In the early days of settlement, people met many obstacles in moving across land. To connect bodies of water, the Europeans built a network of ____________________.

6. The region's most important deepwater ship route--the ____________________ -- was completed in the 1950s as a joint project by the United States and Canada.

7. The first ____________________ was completed across the United States in 1869. To build it, workers had to cut down forests, build bridges over streams, and blast tunnels through mountains.

8. The ____________________, Canada's primary roadway, stretches about 4,860 miles from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia.

9. In the United States, the ____________________ is a 46,000-mile network of highways that crisscross the country.

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