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1. GEOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION ON
NORTH AMERICA

2.  North America is the 3rd largest continent.
 Twenty-four (24) countries make up the continent of North
America.
 About 502 million people live in North America.
 Most North Americans speak English, Spanish, or French.
 North America was named after the explorer Americo
Vespucci.
 Mexico City, Mexico is the largest city in North America.
 North America is the only continent that has every kind of
climate.
 Mount McKinley, in Alaska, is the tallest point on the
continent.

3. Descriptionabout Map North America is
the third-largest continent and is spread
over 9,540,000 sq miles. The continent
encompasses 23 independent states
including the US, Canada, and Mexico.
The Map of North America points out all
the capital cities such as Ottawa,
Washington DC, Mexico City,
Guatemala, San Salvador, Managua,
San Jose, Panama City, Tegucigalpa,
Belmopan, Kingston, Havana, Nassau,
Santo Domingo, Port of Spain, Port-su-
Prince, and Nassau.

5. North America may be divided into at least five
major physiographic regions:
Canadian Shield: This is a geologically stable area of
rock dating between 2.5 and 4 Gya that occupies
most of the northeastern quadrant,
including Greenland.
Appalachian Mountains: The Appalachians are an
old and eroded system that formed about 300 Ma
and extends from the Gaspé Peninsula to Alabama.
Atlantic Coastal Plain: The plain is a belt of
lowlands widening to the south that extends from
south New England to Mexico.

6. Interior Lowlands:The lowlands extend down the
middle of the continent from the Mackenzie
Valley to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and include
the Great Plains on the west and the agriculturally
productive Interior Plains on the east.
North American Cordillera: The cordillera is a
complex belt of mountains and
associated plateaus and basins some of which were
formed as recently as 100–65 Ma, during the
Cretaceous. The cordillera extend from Alaska into
Mexico and includes two orogenic belts — the
Pacific Margin on the west and the Rocky
Mountains on the east — separated by a system of
intermontane plateaus and basins.

7. The climate in North
America is typically cool
and humid. The rainy zone
disproportionately extends
in America, and as the
continent stretches over the
climatic zones, vegetation is
remarkably distinctive.
Great indentations of the
shoreline make insular
conditions to prevail in
much of its interior. The
area along the west coast
tends to be milder and
wetter than other areas
with the same latitude.

8. North America occupies the northern
portion of the landmass generally
referred to as the New World,
the Western Hemisphere, the Americas,
or simply America (which, less
commonly, is considered by some as a
single continent with North America
a subcontinent). North America's only
land connection to South America is at
the Isthmus of Panama.

9. The continent is delimited on the southeast by
most geographers at the Darién
watershed along the Colombia-Panama border,
placing all of Panama within North
America. Alternatively, less common views
would end North America at the man-
made Panama Canaland some geologists
physiographically locate its southern limit at
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, with
Central America extending southeastward to
South America from this
point. The Caribbean islands, or West Indies,
are considered part of North America.

10. There are various plant life distributions in
North America. Plant life in the Arctic
includes grasses, mosses, and Arctic willows.
Coniferous trees,
including spruces, pines, hemlocks, and firs,
are indigenous to the Canadian and
Western U.S.mountain ranges as far south
as San Francisco. Among these are
giant sequoias, redwoods, great firs, and sugar
pines. Sugar pines are generally confined to
the northwestern area of the United States.

11. The central region of the country has
hardwoods. Southern states grow
extensive yellow pines. In addition,
mahogany, logwood, and lignumvitae -
all tropical in nature - are grown. The
southwest has desert plants,
including yucci and cacti. The cultivated
native plants of North America
are tobacco, maize, potato, vanilla, melon
, cacao, gourds, indigo plant, and bean.

12. North America, the third-largest continent, extends from
the tiny Aleutian Islands in the northwest to the Isthmus
of Panama in the south.
North Americas physical
geography, environment andresources, and human
geography can be considered separately.
North America benefits greatly from its fertile soils,
plentifulfreshwater, oil and mineral deposits, and forests.
With a strong domestic and export economy focused on
this abundant array of natural resources, North America
has become one of the most developed regions in the
world.

14. The water resources of the continent vary with
regions. In northern Alaska, the Canadian North, and
Greenland, they are low, mainly because they are
locked up in ice most of the year; when the summer
melt comes, runoff is high. Central Alaska and mid-
northern Canada have a moderate precipitation of
from 12 to 15 inches per year, but again much of this
is locked up in winter ice. The spring melt leads to
extensive flooding, which makes the control of water
difficult. Late summers are dry, but evaporation is
low. Though rivers dwindle, they generally carry
enough water to meet demand.

15. The Great Plains area also has marked high- and low-
water periods, the latter posing serious problems.
Most rivers rise in mountains to the west, where
usually there are extensive snows. Meltwater gives
an early spring flush, and high flow is continued into
early summer through storms generated by the
tropical gulf air. In late summer and fall, however,
the storms cease, and the rivers drop. Streamflow
originating within the region may dry up, while
bigger rivers may sink into braided channels
between bars of sand. Evapotranspiration also
exceeds precipitation, a loss not made up again until
early winter with the return of polar-front storms.
Surface water therefore is scarce for four to five
months and often needs to be supplemented from
groundwater.

16. North America has been struggling immensely since
the last century with air and water pollution,
deforestation, and overpopulation. These struggles
are due to poor prevention planning and industrial
manifestation. Pollution is changing the atmosphere
much sooner than expected and global warming is
predicted to overwhelm the atmosphere within the
next half of a century. In order to sustain the
environment and atmosphere humans must take
immediate action right now. The longer we wait to
start immediate prevention, the sooner our air and
water supplies will diminish.

17. Unfortunately, it is not only North America that needs to
change it is many other countries and regions of the
world. Prevention and preservation is up to every
citizen, business, and government organization by
changing the way they all reduce, reuse, and recycle
products to change the bad habits humans have been
illogically doing in the past century. Taking care of our
most precious resources and preserving them for our
future generations to come should be one of the top
priorities of our time. Preserving water and air, and
using smart growth plans are the key to sustaining the
needs of the human race. The high economic growth of
the United States depends on fast-paced industrializing
and manufacturing. This contradicts with scientists who
imply that the whole world's actions and plans need to
change in order to save most of the species living on the
earth today.

18. The Americas are usually accepted as
having been named after the Italian
explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the
German cartographers Martin
Waldseemüller and Matthias
Ringmann.Vespucci, who explored South
America between 1497 and 1502, was the
first European to suggest that the
Americas were not the East Indies, but a
different landmass previously unknown
by Europeans.

19. In 1507, Waldseemüller produced a
world map, in which he placed the
word "America" on the continent of
South America, in the middle of
what is today Brazil.

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