United States- Physical and Human Geography

5. conditions that surround and influence an organism or community.
7. The War of Resistance against America was a warlike conflict waged between 1955 and 1975 to prevent the reunification of Vietnam under a communist government.
8. ecosystem with large, flat areas of grasses.
11. a national legislative body, and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
13. These are highways in rural and urban areas which provide access between an arterial and a major port, airport, public transportation facility, or other intermodal transportation facility.
16. These highways provide access between major intermodal facilities and the other four subsystems making up the National Highway System.
17. it was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
18. These are highways which provide access between major military installations and highways which are part of the Strategic Highway Network.
19. are a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

1. is an expression of culture.
2. the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
3. The Eisenhower Interstate System of highways retains its separate identity within the NHS.
4. is a community of animals and plants spreading over an extensive area with a relatively uniform climate.
6. the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress.
9. area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.
10. This is a network of highways which are important to the United States’ strategic defense policy and which provide defense access, continuity and emergency capabilities for defense purposes.
12. measures the value of economic activity within a country.
14. refers to a marketplace, where creation and trading of financial assets, such as shares, debentures, bonds, derivatives, currencies, etc. take place.
15. able to produce crops or sustain agriculture.