U.S. and Canada
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| Continental Divide | The line of the highest points in North America that marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward.
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| Permafrost | Permanently frozen ground.
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| Prevailing Westerlies | Winds that blow from west to east.
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| Everglades | A large subtropical swampland in Florida of about 4,000 square miles.
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| Nomad | A person with no permanent home who moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
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| Beringia | A land bridge thought to have connected what are now Siberia and Alaska.
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| St. Lawrence Seaway | North America's most important deepwater ship route, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River.
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| Lock | A section of a waterway with closed gates where water levels are raised or lowered, through which ships pass.
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| Representative Democracy | A government in which the people rule through elected representatives.
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| New England | The six northern states in the Northeast United States—Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
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| The Midwest | The region that contains the 12 states of the north-central United States.
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| The South | A region that covers about one-fourth of the land area of the United States and contains more than one-third of its population.
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| The West | A North American region, consisting of 13 states, that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the Pacific.
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| Province | A political unit.
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| Dominion of Canada | The loose confederation of Ontario (Upper Canada), Quebec (Lower Canada), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, created by the British North America Act in 1867.
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| Parliamentary Government | A system where legislative and executive functions are combined in a legislature called a parliament.
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| Parliament | A representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed and in which legislative and executive functions are combined.
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| Prime Minister | The head of a government; the majority party's leader in parliament.
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| First Nations | A group of Canada's Native American people.
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| Métis | A person of mixed French-Canadian and Native American ancestry.
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| Reserve | Public land set aside for native peoples by the government.
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| Atlantic Provinces | The provinces in Eastern Canada—Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.
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| Prairie Provinces | In Canada, the provinces west of Ontario and Quebec—Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
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| British Columbia | Canada's westernmost province, located within the Rocky Mountain range.
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| Nunavut | One of Canada's territories and home to many of Canada's Inuit; it was carved out of the eastern half of the Northwest territories in 1999.
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