GEOGRAPHY OF THE USAUS states

Bodies of water

Mountains, lowlands

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AMERICAN STATES a federation of 50 states and 1 District of

Columbia the whole North America, from the Atlantic to the

Pacific Oceans 9, 400, 000 sq km neighbours: Canada, Mexico (the Rio Grande) Alaska, Hawai Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam… 4 time zones divided into 6 regions:

New England The Middle Atlantic The South The Midwest The Southwest The Northwest

NEW ENGLAND & THE MIDDLE ATLANT. six states:

Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

history: first colonies - John

Smith, Plymouth - Pilgrims

Boston history culture, education –

Harvard, MIT Vermont

rural settlements, farms

seven states: New York,

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

Great Valley The Appalachians history New York,

Philadelphia Niagara Falls Pennsylvania Dutch

Country Amish people

BOSTON

Autor: Nelson48, Název: Boston downtown skyline.jpgZdroj: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_downtown_skyline.jpg

THE SOUTH

eleven states: Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas,

Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida…+ other states along the Gulf Coast

cotton and tobacco plantations - history The Great Smoky National Park Washington D.C. – the capital Atlanta – culture, finance, Coca-Cola New Orleans – French atmosphere, jazz Florida – holidays, Miami, Orlando, commercial centre,

Cape Canaveral AFS

THE SOUTH

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THE MIDWEST & THE NORTHWEST thirteen states:

Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, …

The Black Hills Mt Rushmore

The Great Lakes agricultural:

corn, wheat, dairy belts Chicago

3rd largest, The Sears Tower

Detroit (car industry), Minneapolis - skyways

1. Rocky Mount. States: Idaho, Montana,

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico

2. The Pacific Northwest States: Oregon, Washington,

Alaska Yellowstone NP, Glacier

NP, Yosemite NP (canyons, geyser, falls…)

The Colorado Rockies Salt Lake City – Mormons,

Denver, Seattle – technology, Boeing

Alaska – Klondike Gold Rush, Anchorage, Inuits

MT RUSHMORE

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Autor: Daniela Mayer, Název: Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone.JPG

Zdroj:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Faithful_Geyser_at_Yellowstone.JPG

THE SOUTHWEST & HAWAI three states:

California, Arizona, Nevada

The Sequoia NP The Great Basin

The Death Valley caves, lakes, pines

The Grand Canyon the Colorado river

Spanish, Mexican people, Indians Navajos, Shoshones

San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Las

Vegas

joined the USA in 1959 Hawai, Maui, O`ahu, Kaua`i…

the only island as a state tropical climate abundant beaches, diverse

nature, volcanos (Mauna Kea, M. Loa)

capital: Honolulu

languages: official: English and Hawaiian, other:Tagalog, Hawaian Creole English

= pidgin (da kine)

whaling, sandalwood, sugarcane, pineapple

endemits, NP, surfing, Haw. folklore

BODIES OF WATER

Rivers the Mississippi – ‘father of water’ – 3rd longest in

the world the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas

the St Lawrence River, the Rio Grandethe Colorado, the Columbia, the Snake, the

Niagara, the Hudson, the YukonLakes

The Great Lakes Lake Superior, Ontario, Huron, Erie, Michigan

Niagara FallsAmerican X Canadian

MOUNTAINS AND LOWLANDS

East: Appalachian Mountains plateaus The Mississippi Lowland The Atlantic Plain

West: mountainous mount. rangers: Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the

Cordilleras – the Rocky Mount., the Grand Canyon middle:

central plains the highest peak X lowest place

Mt McKinley (Alaska) X Death Valley

GRAND CANYON

Autor: Jon Sullivan, Název: Grand Canyon-Mather point.jpgZdroj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Canyon-Mather_point.jpg

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