North America
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Christina Bennes
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North America
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North America is in the Northern Hemisphere
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United States
The United States is part of North America, along with Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The United States has fifty states.
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Regions
The United States is made up of different regions. The states in each region have many things in common like geography and climate.
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New England
Climate:There are 4 seasons
Geography: mountains, hills, and coast
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Boston
The largest city in New England.
First public library and first college in the U.S. were in Boston.
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The Appalachian Mountains
are a mountain range that start in Canada and New England and run down to the south.
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The Mid-Atlantic Region
Climate: 4 seasons, but winters are not as cold and summers are hotter than New England
Geography: Big cities that are densely populated, port cities on the coast
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New York City
The most populated city in the U.S.
Statue of Liberty is here.
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The South
Geography: mountains, rivers, valleys, and sandy beaches
Climate: It is much hotter, especially in the summer.
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Florida is a peninsula.
a piece of land sticking out into a body of water, so that it is almost surrounded by water.
It juts out between two bodies of water—the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west.
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The Gulf Stream
a warm ocean current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico and travels north along the coast from Florida all the way to Newfoundland in Canada
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The Midwest Region
Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Rivers, lakes and forests are major features of this region
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The Great Lakes
In the northern part of this region, there are huge bodies of water called the Great Lakes. There are five of these lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
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The Great Lakes
Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
Super Man Helps Every One
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Agriculture
the growing of crops and raising of livestock for food and other purposes.
many corn and dairy products are made in this area
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The Great Plains
includes the states of Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
Very flat and called "America's Breadbasket" because wheat is grown here
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Small population
People have always had to be tough to survive on the Great Plains. The region has little water and a harsh climate, with hot summers and freezing winters.
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Mount Rushmore
In South Dakota features the faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Each face is almost sixty feet tall.
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The Rocky Mountain Region
The Rockies run from Canada through all of the states in the region that bears their name. These five states are Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Utah.
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The Rockies
The Rockies are taller and steeper than the The Appalachian range
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Yellowstone National Park
Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho too. Yellowstone features dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests, hot springs and gushing geysers, including its most famous, Old Faithful.
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Southwest Region
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.
Climate: Very hot
geography: desert—dry, sandy land with few trees.
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The Grand Canyon
It is a gigantic gorge carved out by the Colorado River. It is a mile deep and up to eighteen miles across.
A gorge is a narrow deep valley cut by a river.
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Grand Canyon
If you peer over the edge, you can see the river glistening far, far down at the bottom. The walls of the canyon are all different colors—red, brown, white, and yellow. The colors come from the layers of different kinds of rock.
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West Coast/ Pacific Coast
Sandy warm beaches in Southern California, raining climate in Washington and Oregon
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Los Angeles
The biggest city in California and very diverse. Home to the movie industry
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Alaska
Cold and Mountainous
The largest State by size
Next to Canada and near Russia
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Mount Denali
The tallest mountain in the United States is in Alaska
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Hawaii
Warm, tropical climate
Made of more than one hundred small islands
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Hawaii is located two thousand miles west of California in the Pacific Ocean
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