North America Facts
- The area of North America is 9.54 million miles squared, with 23 countries, and with 528.7 million people living here.
- Relative location- North Western Hemisphere
- Absolute location- The center is in Rugby North Dakota.
- Physical Place- Mountain chains, developed, fresh water
- Cultural place- Christians.
- Functional region- Hollywood.
- Perceptual Region- The "ghetto".
- Movement- The Panama canal, and the Suez canal.
- H.E.I.- Logging, pollution, factories, drought, wildfires.
- The climates of North America- Tundra, desert, taiga, savanna, Mediterranean, humid-continental.
- Natural disasters include: hurricanes- on the gulf. Tornado's- in tornado alley. Earthquakes- in California.
- Barriers are the Mojave Desert and the Appalachian mountains. Openings are the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi river.
- This Continent was discovered in 1001 AD by Leif Eriksson. Some say that the Norse vikings were here first.
Natives
The Indians first inhabited this continent, the name of their civilization was the Native Americans. They spoke both Spanish and Navajo as their language. They did not have much of a government structure. Their families were the same a today except a whole family lived in one house. Parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents all in one house.
The Indians first inhabited this continent, the name of their civilization was the Native Americans. They spoke both Spanish and Navajo as their language. They did not have much of a government structure. Their families were the same a today except a whole family lived in one house. Parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents all in one house.
North America Current Event- Just recently, the court upheld an appeal on whether or not marijuana card holders should be able to purchase firearms. The court upheld the original ruling of saying that marijuana card holders can not purchase firearms.